Expert: Bird-flu deaths in China actually 300

From WorldNetDaily.com:

A respected Japanese virologist shocked colleagues at a meeting in Germany last week when he passed on a confidential disclosure from Chinese scientists that 300 people have died from H5N1 bird flu in China – not two, as Beijing has reported to the world.

Masato Tashiro, head of virology at Tokyo's National Institute of Infectious Disease – a center for avian flu research collaborating with the World Health Organization – said his Chinese sources, who, if discovered, face arrest for disclosing the extent of the outbreak, told him seven of the deaths involved human-to-human transmission.

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