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Experts have called for closer study of less lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic.

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Feb. 1, 2007, 1:41 a.m.
"All previous influenza pandemics have shown a relatively low mortality (of less than 3 percent, including the 1918-19 pandemic). The total number of people who died is large because a lot more were infected, but the majority -- or over 97 percent -- survived," Tang told Reuters.
"There is evidence that even this virus underwent some adaptation to humans before becoming pandemic, which may be what we are seeing in these more mild or asymptomatic human cases of H5N1 in South Korea," Tang said.

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