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 GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. health agency on Tuesday raised to 160 its official tally of people worldwide who have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus after laboratory tests in London confirmed that at least 12 people in Turkey have been infected with the disease.
The death toll from the disease has risen to 85, including four in Turkey, the World Health Organization said on its Web site.
Nine further samples, from individuals confirmed by Turkish health officials as H5N1 positive, are still being examined in Britain to verify that they carried the disease, said WHO spokesman Iain Simpson.
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