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Scientists are terrified they've identified the world's next human pandemic
For decades, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has infected birds and a small number of humans. The deadly strain of bird flu was first detected In 1996 in wild geese in southeast China. The following year, the virus spread through live poultry …