The World Health Organisation will send a mission to an eastern Chinese province that has reported two human deaths from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
China says a second person has died of H5N1 in Anhui province, bringing to three the total number of confirmed cases in the world's largest poultry producing nation.
A third person, a nine-year-old boy living in southern Hunan province, recovered. Nearly 70 people have now died in Asia from bird flu since late 2003, while millions of birds have been culled in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading.
The World Health Organisation fears the H5N1 strain of bird flu could mutate into a highly contagious form that triggers the next global human flu pandemic.A mutated bird flu outbreak was blamed for the deaths of as many as 40 million people worldwide in 1918.
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