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Friday, January 18, 2008

BIRD FLU SPREADING AT ALARMING RATE WORLDWIDE AMONG WILD BIRDS AND POULTRY LIVESTOCK

NYTIMES:
India’s third outbreak of avian flu among poultry is the worst it has faced, the World Health Organization said.

The chief minister of West Bengal State, which is trying to cull 400,000 birds, called the virus’s spread “alarming.”

Uncooperative villagers, angry at being offered only 75 cents a chicken by the government, have been selling off their flocks and throwing dead birds into waterways, increasing the risk.

New outbreaks were also reported this week in Iran and Ukraine.
MORE HERE.
  • IT'S GETTING WORSE.
  • IT CANNOT BE STOPPED.
  • 25% OF HUMAN CASES CANNOT BE TRACED TO DIRECT CONTACT WITH INFECTED BIRDS.
  • IT SPREADS VIA WATER AND DUST (WHICH HAVE TRACES OF INFECTED BIRD FECES).
  • IT'S NOT A MATTER OF "IF"; IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF "WHEN".
As it stands now, an H2H/H5N1 pandemic would be the most serious plague ever to afflict mankind. It is ten times more deadly than the flu in 1918.

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