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Nature Medicine 12, 258 (2006)
Published online: 28 February 2006 | doi:10.1038/nm0306-258a

Panic over bird flu pandemic premature, experts say

Paroma Basu1

  1. Madison

Fears of a bird flu pandemic heightened in January when scientists reported that samples of H5N1 taken from infected individuals in Turkey carry mutations that could enable the virus to spread more easily among people. But experts now say the news may have raised red flags prematurely.

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