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How contagious is the Bird Flu Virus?

Bird flu may have passed from daughter to mother, raising fears about further contagion

The H5N1 bird flu virus may have passed from daughter to mother in northern Thailand, killing both women and raising fears about the risk of contagion. The discovery of the sequence of the marine diatom genome is important because they process as much carbon dioxide as the terrestrial rainforests. Testing the possibility of hibernation for human space travellers. The 50th anniversary of particle acceleration laboratory CERN, Switzterland.

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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