Published on October 12, 2005

To help stave off a global bird-flu pandemic, the Department of Medical Sciences yesterday said it was considering inoculating high-risk people against influenza.

While no cases of bird flu or influenza type A have been reported in Thailand this year, the possibility of an avian flu epidemic triggered by a mutation in the virus enabling it to spread from human to human was alarmingly high, said department head Dr Phaijit Varachit.

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