Children's hospital on frontline in bird flu war (Reuters)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050915/hl_nm/birdflu_researcher_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20050915/2005_09_15t092933_450x290_us_birdflu_researcher.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=_AiLWNWjLsOFZ1ICwZna3A--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Free range chickens are kept indoors in a free range poultry farm in Ruurlo, the Netherlands, August 23, 2005. Dutch scientists, who recommended the precautions to the government, fear that migrating birds moving to warmer areas for winter after nesting in infected Russian regions, could spread the H5N1 virus strain found there to other European countries. (Michael Kooren/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - It seems an unlikely place to launch a
war against a bird virus that health officials believe could
soon mutate into a human pandemic that will kill millions -- a
hospital filled with children fighting devastating genetic
diseases and rare cancers.</p><br clear=all>