To: Dog Gone
I read somewhere (and this story is no exception) that all flus start in China. Speculation runs that because large segments of the population live with farm animals in their houses, germs spread freely back and forth among them and the humans through direct contact. Pigs are especially suspect for generating flu germs, and the Chinese farmers do live with real pigs in the house (the Chinese character for happiness is supposedly a pig under the roof of a house).
For tin-foil hat types, it would be extremely easy to spread a new laboratory-created deadly flu from China to start a world epidemic, especially now that Hong Kong is open to the Red Chinese.
69 posted on
03/15/2003 10:44:43 AM PST by
TenthAmendmentChampion
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion
Its the density of people with domestic animals that feeds it.
73 posted on
03/15/2003 10:48:02 AM PST by
Chancellor Palpatine
(those who unilaterally beat their swords into plowshares wind up plowing for those who don't)
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
(the Chinese character for happiness is supposedly a pig under the roof of a house). Islam is not going to be good to them...
74 posted on
03/15/2003 10:48:22 AM PST by
null and void
(The character for good is woman with (male) child...)
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