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China reports two deaths after five new H5N6 cases, prompting the WHO to call for ‘immediate’ action. After five new H5N6 cases were confirmed, China reported two deaths from bird flu, prompting the WHO to call for “urgent” action. Last year, a spike in the number of people infected with bird flu in China alarmed experts, who warned that the strain could be more infectious to humans. Five people were infected with the avian influenza strain in December last year, according to the Hong Kong Health Department, in Sichuan province, Zhejiang province, and the Guangxi Autonomous Region. Officials said in...
