Dawn of the Frankenstein Killer Flu ; (and How Our Government has Done Nothing to Protect Us From an Epidemic That Could Kill Up to 500,000 Britons)

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BY PROFESSOR JOHN OXFORD

GIVING mouth- to- beak resuscitation to a chicken dying of influenza sounds a desperately ill-advised therapy, even if the bird is a prized fighting cock.

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Dawn of the Frankenstein Killer Flu ; (and How Our Government has Done Nothing to Protect Us From an Epidemic That Could Kill Up to 500,000 Britons)

But last month an 18-year-old teenager in Thailand did just that.

Last week he died of chicken influenza. Now three more chicken farmers' children with high fevers are under observation in hospital.

The World Health Organisation warned last week of the possibility of an influenza outbreak in south-east Asia, describing ...

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