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China strengthens checks after new bird flu deaths
Bangkok Post ^ | 1 Apr 2013 | staff

Posted on 04/01/2013 9:34:32 PM PDT by Rabin

China's commercial hub Shanghai is stepping up monitoring after a new strain of bird flu killed two people, state media said Monday, as Taiwan announced it would screen travellers from the mainland. More than 16,000 pig carcasses were fished out of the Yangtze River Delta, after they were sickened, there might be a link between the sickened pigs and the bird flu deaths. Virologists also study pigs because they can serve as hosts for bird viruses and human viruses to mix and mutate... Bird flu strain, H5N1, may mutate to spread more easily. It has decimated poultry stocks mostly in Southeast Asia, (but) occasionally sickened people. It can be deadly when it does infect humans, killing about 60 percent of the time.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: birdflu; duck; pig
96 of all China export "sea food" (mainly hormone modified Talapia and Shrimp) spawn in this petrel dish of disease and infection. Soylent sewage is what may be @ your fish counter. Ask It has been just shitty for quite a while, now it may also be dangerous. Rab
1 posted on 04/01/2013 9:34:32 PM PDT by Rabin
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