The cause of a deadly flu-like illness in Asia could be a virus, health experts said Monday, after more than 150 people have fallen ill, mostly in Hong Kong and Vietnam, over the past three weeks. It is suspected that another 300 people in China's Guangdong province had the same disease beginning in mid-November. Experts are sending encouraging signs as some of the victims appear to be getting better. Still the biggest fear is that it is a new and lethal form of influenza. So far, the disease has killed nine people - seven in Asia and two in North America.

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