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[What I'd liked to have said] Much Ado About Bird Flu: In nature, flu viruses in birds are intestinal diseases. Through feces, flu particles are deposited in water, where another duck or goose picks them up, gets infected and sheds the virus in turn.
[meet me under the spiral cement truck] (vancouver) duh: When it comes to his food, Hung admits he no longer eats those "tricky delicacies" he used to love. "We have also stopped eating chicken, duck, and poultry in general.
[Birdflublog.blogspot.com] THE BIRD FLU BLOG: The World Health Organisation claims publicly it has a stockpile of 80,000 treatments courses of the anti-viral oseltamivir (Tamiflu) that it can use to try and head off a pandemic, but WHO has not specified the length of the treatment courses. No anti-viral medication have been 100% proven to stop a bird flu pandemic in humans, as the virus will keep evolving, mutating, through the flow of infections.
[Birdflumonitor.com] Bird Flu Monitor:
[Traders Trade -- For People Who Buy, Sell and Trade Online] Tamiflu demand has soared because of fears there could be a Bird Flu pandemic even though there is no guarantee Tamiflu will be effective against the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. A spokeswoman for eBay said the auction on its British site had been stopped because the sale of prescription drugs was not allowed under the company's rules.
[Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Fears that Asian bird flu ...: Fears that the deadly Asian bird flu may have spread to Europe were heightened yesterday when the Romanian government confirmed that three ducks have died of a strain of the disease in the east of the country. Scientists in Britain are to conduct tests on samples to find out whether the domestic ducks were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain, which has so far been confined to Asia.
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