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“Fatal bird flu cases in Pakistan”
By Ashfaq Yusufzai, Peshawar
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed.
Tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that bird flu killed some members of a family in north-west Pakistan late last year.
The WHO says steps were taken to prevent future fatalities in the area.
Pakistan’s north-west and southern regions were hit by bird flu last year. Thousands of birds were culled to control the spread of the disease.
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The confirmation of people dying from bird flu came on Thursday, after samples collected from a family in the north-western city of Peshawar tested positive.
Dr Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi, head of the isolation ward for avian flu patients at Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, told the BBC that a poultry worker in Peshawar apparently passed the disease on to members of his family.”
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Wong was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury via the computer and bonded out for $7,500. Additional charges are pending, he said. “
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“Man with weapon cache charged with threatening Virginia Tech style massacre”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening to re-enact a Virginia-Tech style massacre over the Internet, authorities said Thursday.
Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted by Calin Chi Wong in which he threatened to re-enact the Virginia Tech killings. Two days later, Homestead Police searched the home Wong shares with his parents and found the weapons in stacked on shelves in plain view, Det. Antonio Aquino said.
Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a heating clip with bullets meant to take down aircraft or military machines. He’d hidden two AK-47s in his parents closet and his parents said the guns did not belong to them, Aquino said.
Wong was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury via the computer and bonded out for $7,500. Additional charges are pending, he said. A message left by The Associated Press at a phone number listed for Wong was not immediately returned Thursday evening. The phone at his employer, China King, rang unanswered. It was not known if he had a lawyer.
Homestead Police first noticed Wong when he went to the department in February to complain he had been ripped off for $800 over the Internet after he ordered a gun online using his father’s Paypal account.
He told authorities he’d called the FBI, ATF and other agencies about the issue and had finally reached a boiling point when he posted the message saying he would re-enact the Virginia Tech massacre, Aquino said.
“After speaking to him and seeing his frustration, I believe that he had the potential to carry out some kind of threat,” Aquino said.”