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Indonesia Sets Record for Bird Flu Deaths

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Watch this video about the bird flu on HowStuffWorks. More than 70 people have now died from the bird flu virus in Indonesia. The country has had more fatal cases of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza than any other nation. Experts fear that the virus could mutate into a form which could be transmitted from human to human, causing a pandemic. See how bird flu works in this news video from Reuters.

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