Deadly bird flu ‘could kill millions across the world’ because China refuses to share samples of virus

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PANDEMIC RISK 

Without samples of the virus UK health bosses will struggle to create a vaccine for the bug, which experts have warned has the potential to become a pandemic

By Andrea Downey, Digital Health Reporter
31st August 2018, 11:33 am
Updated: 31st August 2018, 3:25 pm

A DEADLY strain of bird flu could infect the world as China is refusing to share samples of the virus with Brit health bosses.

It comes after it was revealed Chinese authorities have also refused US requests for lab samples of the bug for a year.

A new strain of bird flu has killed some 600 people in China, but Chinese authorities are refusing to share lab samples of the bug with UK health officials, it has been reported
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A new strain of bird flu has killed some 600 people in China, but Chinese authorities are refusing to share lab samples of the bug with UK health officials, it has been reported

To date there have been 1,625 cases of the H7N9 virus, a virus normally found in poultry, in people…

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