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Since you replied to #810 post I do not know if you made it to my answer to Calpernia.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065689/posts?q=1&&page=846

This link along with the CDC & WHO will give most info:

World Health Org.
http://www.who.int/en/

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/hot/flu/news/jan_2704avian.html

Hit News on the sidebar since you are on the FLU page, and the latest will appear. Also has many links to good info on other subjects of Health Interest.

In respect to the VISAs for Falcons Calpernia brought up, I am sure Falcons like pigeons, are looked at by our government(US) in the same way. As carriers(bird term no insinuation intended). The fact remains that there are many ways to do the "ungood", it is a daunting task for the government(US/Allied) to keep up with it all. That is why citizens have their responsibilities also, to be, and stay aware. This is a new world (not NWO), and it may never be the same. Our children may never know the freedoms we their parents had.

New News on the Avian Flu
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Indonesia refuses to order mass cull to halt bird flu

AP[ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2004 09:29:51 PM ]

JAKARTA : Indonesia said Wednesday it would not order the mass slaughter of chickens, even as the World Health Organization insisted that poultry culls were the best way to halt the rapid spread of bird flu.

Though its chickens have been infected with the virus sweeping Asia , killing 10 people in as many countries, Indonesia insists it has no human cases of avian influenza.

Hoping to allay fears that eating fowl could cause the illness, officials on the island of Bali held a roast chicken and boiled egg cookout on Wednesday. Dozens of people attended.

Indonesian authorities are still allowing the sale of chicken meat from bird flu-infected farms and have not ordered any mandatory mass culling of chickens. They say they will rely on vaccines to keep the disease from spreading, though it's not clear if that method will work.

Agriculture official Budi Tri Akoso said Indonesia so far has only suggested culling if farmers can afford it.

"It seems the Indonesians are not yet convinced of the effectiveness of culling," Kumara Rai, director of communicable diseases at the World Health Organization's Southeast Asia office, said at an international meeting in Bangkok , Thailand , to discuss the regional bird flu outbreak.

After weeks of denials, Indonesia announced on Sunday that avian influenza was rampant in the country, including Bali , Indonesia 's premier tourist destination.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/450433.cms

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Bird flu killing most of those who catch it

29.01.2004
By SCOTT MacLEOD and NZPA
The Asian bird flu is killing three out of every four people who catch it, says a New Zealand virus expert at the World Health Organisation.

But despite the grim toll, many New Zealand travellers arriving from Asia seem barely aware of the disease and say they had no health checks when returning to Auckland.

Christchurch virologist Lance Jennings, who is fighting the outbreak with the WHO in the Philippines, said the death rate was very high.

"Nearly everyone who has been identified with the virus has died."

Six out of eight people in Vietnam and two out of three in Thailand had died. But the WHO was not sure of the exact death rate because it was not clear how many people had caught the virus.

Some travellers arriving in Auckland from Thailand last night spoke of a wave of anxiety spreading through the Asian country.

Others were barely aware of the disease, or seemed to have been misinformed about its origins.

Kane Fawcett, 27, was returning from nine months in the region and said he started hearing reports in the past week or two.

"There's a lot of paranoid Thais," he said. "My brother's girlfriend is Thai and she won't go near chicken. She told me the disease came out of the United States."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3546243&thesection=news&thesubsection=general