[Dog Gone]

Oh, for pete's sake. There have been ongoing threads here at FR for months regarding the Avian Flu threat. This ain't new news.

[crazyhorse691]

He plans to spend next week touring Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the countries most likely to be the source of an avian flu outbreak,

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100 years from now researchers will determine that the Bird Flu Pandemic of 2006 was traced to a lowlevel federal employee who had visited SE Asia the previous fall.

[TexasTransplant]

Please... the Slimes is not a reputable source of News.

[Pikamax]

This has upcoming media hysteria written all over it.

[digger48]

Chicken Little is gonna bite us in the arse after all?

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[Cicero]

Oh, good. Now the Times is hoping that a few million Americans will die of Avian Influenza so they can blame it on Bush.

[Shermy]

Remember the flu shot panic before last year's election?

[nhoward14]

All that is missing from this article is a sourceless claim that secret experiments are going on at Area 51 to develop a vaccine for Avian Flu based on alien technology.

[JamminJAY]

Fear of Flu Outbreak Rattles Washington

Sure this wasn't an earthquake?

[taxesareforever]

Create paranoia and throw $3.9 billion at it. Don't tell me there ain't gold in thar hills.

[DocRock]

Bird Flu Was Virus Behind 1918 Pandemic, Studies Find

My great grandmother died in that outbreak....