"Turks battle to loosen grip of deadly bird flu
Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:05 AM GMT15
By Paul de Bendern
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey stepped up efforts on Wednesday to halt an outbreak of deadly bird flu as a U.N. body warned that the virus risked becoming firmly established there and posed a serious threat to neighboring countries.
The virus has been found in birds in a third of Turkish provinces, killed at least two children and infected more than a dozen people."
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