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Five more people were confirmed to have been killed by bird flu in
Four of the deaths were in North Sumatra province while the fifth came in
Worldwide, 213 people in 10 countries have been confirmed as bird-flu patients and 120 have died, the UN health agency, announced.
Health officials have reported seven known cluster cases in
At present, most victims of bird flu have had direct or indirect contact with infected fowl, but scientists fear the virus will mutate into a strain easily passed among people, causing a pandemic in which millions could die globally.