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New bird flu deaths probed, funds promised
The Sun, 19 Jan 2006 |
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BEIJING: Wealthy nations promised US$1.9 billion (RM7 billion) yesterday for a global fund to combat bird flu, while China reported another death from the virus and Iraq tested a dead teenage girl who may also be a victim. The funding promised at the end of an international conference in Beijing was well in excess of an initial target set by the World Bank. |
Conference host China said a 35-year-old woman in the southwest
of the country had died of bird flu. The poultry slaughterer
would be China's sixth human death. Iraq was testing for a human
case of the virus for the first time after a 14-year-old girl
died of a fever in the Kurdish region close to the Turkish
border. Reuters |
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