Int'l conference on bird flu opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Delegates from more than 30 nations mainly in Asia and international organizations open an international conference, jointly hosted by Japan and the World Health Organization, in Tokyo to discuss how to contain a possible global human influenza pandemic sparked by the spread of bird flu.

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