The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7349 p572
14 May 2005

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Failure to monitor bird flu

Countries affected by bird flu are not sharing samples from infected people and poultry with the World Health Organization, according to Nature. Of 89 human cases 52 have been fatal. Only six samples have been obtained by the WHO, which is warning that it cannot judge how serious the situation is (2005;435:131).