Brussels, 31/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) announced on 31 January that one of its foremost experts is to be sent to northern Iraq to investigate the risk of spread of the H5N1 virus of avian flu, which has caused the death of an adolescent in Iraqi Kurdistan on the border with Turkey, where the virus has already been responsible for five deaths. Epidemiologist Denis Coulombier is to be part of the World Health Organisation (WHO)...