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Wed 10 Oct 2006Projections for bird flu deaths revised upwards
Government advisers are revising upwards the estimated death toll should avian flu strike Ireland. New figures yet to be released will exceed the 3,600 deaths originally expected if the bird flu begins to infect humans.
The expert group set up by the Government to plan a response to a pandemic has changed its calculations for the amount of illness and death likely to be caused by a human outbreak, according to the director of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dr Darina O'Flanagan.
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