"India is among the winter destinations of migratory birds infected with the deadly avian influenza virus around a lake in China, scientists reported today.
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Experts on infectious diseases believe an influenza pandemic (an epidemic affecting a vast area) is “inevitable and imminent”. During the 20th century, the world witnessed three global epidemics of influenza. The worst of them in 1918-19 killed more than 40 million people."
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