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Published online 6 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040405-3
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Canadian bird flu prompts mass cull
Millions of birds could die after two farm workers infected.
TheCanadian government has decided to kill 19 million farm birds in an attempt to contain an outbreak of bird flu.
The avian influenza outbreak has already affected hundreds of thousands of chickens and has infected at least two farm workers involved in their culling.
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