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It could kill a billion people worldwide, make ghost towns out of parts of major cities, and there is not enough medicine to fight it. It is called the avian flu.
This week, the U.S. government agreed to stockpile $100 million worth of a still-experimental vaccine, while at the United Nations Summit in New York, both the head of the U.N. World Health Organization and President Bush warned of the virus' deadly potential.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Inve...1130392&page=1
Whoa.... I've heard them talking about this for a while, but didn't realize it was this big of a deal. Damn....