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World Health Organisation 'takes the risk from this virus seriously' and 'urges heightened vigilance from all countries'

A 53-year-old woman has reportedly tested positive for bird flu amid a 'worrying' global outbreak, with the announcement coming only a week after a girl died from the virus in Cambodia

A scientist has warned that a new strain of bird flu which appears to have evolved to infect humans must be treated with 'utmost importance' after an 11-year-old girl died from the virus

The bird flu, which is known as avian influenza, spreads in poultry but was only deemed a threat after a 1997 outbreak among customers of a live poultry market in Hong Kong - with most cases involving direct contact with infected birds

Artist Miles Negus-Fancey caught bird flu during a family holiday to Austria. But the worst was yet to come, as once he got home doctors also revealed he also head leukaemia

WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged world leaders to be vigilant and monitor bird flu cases in mammals after the disease was found to have spread to otters