In a major breakthrough scientists in UK have related the H5N1 virus strain as originating from Afghanistan. The H5N1 strain which is commonly known as Bird Flu is currently creating havoc across the Globe, the strain mainly affects poultry animals. Until now The World Health Organization has recorded only 238 deaths proven to be from a human variant of the H5N1 virus. Yet scientists and security specialists are more in agreement on the risk of a pandemic than on climate change and global warming.

The argument is based on a hypothesis, "It is more a question of when rather than if the H5N1 virus mutates into a virulent human form. So far we have noted more than 20 mutations of the virus in only a few years." So everything points to...

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