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To: eastforker
Basic hygienic measures like not keeping 10's of thousands of wild animals in crowded markets :)

China is responsible for the large majority of new strains of influenza due to keeping chickens and ducks in close quarters with pigs and humans.
10 posted on 01/05/2004 6:03:18 AM PST by gd124
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To: gd124
No kidding. If the US cattle were potentially spreading SARS instead of PMS, we'd hear no end of it.
15 posted on 01/05/2004 6:23:07 AM PST by txhurl (They call it PMS because 'mad cow disease' was already taken.)
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