| Indonesia has taken immediate action to
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| | died Wednesday.
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| try to contain an outbreak of the bird
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| | Most of the at least 60 people who have
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| flu virus that has killed four people in
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| | died from the virus in four Asian
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| the nation's capital since July.
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| | countries since late 2003 became infected
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| International health experts have begun
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| | after close contact with birds.
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| arriving in Indonesia to help with the
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| | The WHO's Indonesia representative, Georg
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| growing problem.
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| | Petersen, says with 12 million people in
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| The Indonesian health minister warns the
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| | Jakarta living near infected birds more
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| recent outbreak of bird flu could easily
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| | people could catch the virus.
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| turn into an epidemic as agricultural
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| | "The virus is basically circulating in
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| officials announced plans for a massive
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| | the bird population and we have a
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| cull of poultry in infected areas.
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| | situation with very high population
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| Health experts are concerned because they
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| | density too in the same areas, so the
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| cannot identify the source of the H5N1
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| | chances are more infections in humans is
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| virus that has caused at least four
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| | slowly growing," he said.
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| deaths in recent weeks.
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| | WHO spokesman Mr. Dietz also says
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| World Health Organization spokesman Bob
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| | human-to-human transmission may have
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| Dietz says there is concern the virus
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| | already occurred, but in a limited way.
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| could spread among humans.
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| | "This might have happened. But we have
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| "The threat, the very, very, very grave
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| | always been reluctant to say
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| threat is that sooner or later it will
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| | categorically this has indeed happened.
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| evolve into that sort of virus that can
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| | What might be happening is inefficient
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| be exchanged between human beings. That
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| | transmission of the virus between human
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| means it could tear through the global
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| | beings in some very specialized,
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| population very quickly," he said.
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| | localized situations," he said.
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| Six suspected cases of bird flu remain
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| | Health experts from Australia, the United
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| under observation in a Jakarta hospital,
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| | States and Canada have begun to arrive in
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| while a seventh, a five-year-old child,
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| | Indonesia to assess the situation.
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