Researchers believe that the H5N1 virus, avian flu, may have killed millions of wild birds globally as the outbreak ravages South America. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with William Schaffner, professor of medicine at the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center about the spread of the disease which has now been reported on every continent except Oceania and Antarctica.
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