Mild bird flu too risky too ignore

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    Today Online -12th January 2006
Mild bird flu too risky to ignore: Japan
TOKYO - The world's first confirmed human cases of a weaker strain of bird flu are too "risky to ignore", even though none of those affected has health problems, Japanese officials warned. 
     The H5N2 strain -- a milder form of the H5N1 which has killed more than 70 people in Asia since 2003 and two people in Turkey -- needs global attention because it could mutate, they said Wednesday. 
     "There is no health risk for those infected workers, but as long as the virus is a type of H5- strain, it is risky to ignore it," said a researcher at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

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	Today Online -12th January 2006 Mild bird flu too risky to ignore: Japan TOKYO - The world's first confirmed human cases of a weaker strain of bird flu are too "risky to ignore", even though none of those affected has health problems, Japanese officials warned. The H5N2 strain -- a milder form of the H5N1 which has killed more than 70 people in Asia since 2003 and two people in Turkey -- needs global attention because it could mutate, they said Wednesday. "There is no health risk for those infected workers, but as long as the virus is a type of H5- strain, it is risky to ignore it," said a researcher at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.