Posted on 01/27/2014 7:21:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Authorities in eastern China have banned live poultry sales after an increase in the number of people infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, state media reported Tuesday, with the busy Chinese New Year travel period already under way.
So far this year, H7N9 has killed 19 people in China and infected 96, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. …
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I have an idea! let’s send our frozen chicken carcasses to China and let them process the birds and send them back to us. What could possibly go wrong?
Sure . . . doing the jobs that Americans used to do and could still do if not for the left’s mad dash to destroy the only country that ever stood against communism.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I’ve got a better idea! Let’s let the Chinese process their own chicken and ship it to the us labeled as our chicken!
For your edification...
Q.
Why did the chicken cross the ocean?
To poison the other side?
Ping...(thanks again, nully!)
A lot of people don't know that this was just approved by congress.
Or...that the Chinese just bought the US company that supplies most of the ham for the USA.
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