Asia-Pacific to stage mock flu outbreak

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

BRISBANE, Australia -- Countries across the Asia-Pacific region coping with an outbreak of bird flu plan to stage a mock disease outbreak next year to gauge how well they would respond to a pandemic or other major health threat, an Australian official said Tuesday.

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