Bird Flu Monitor > Bulgaria bans Romanian poultry over bird flu

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Bulgaria said it would ban poultry products from its northern Black Sea neighbour Romania on Thursday after the discovery of dozens of new cases of avian flu there. Romanian officials have culled domestic birds and temporarily quarantined populated areas, including part of the capital Bucharest, after detecting over 40 cases of the potentially

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http://europepanflu.blogspot.com [Pandemic Flu from Europe] Bulgaria Bans Import of Poultry Meat from... : “Bulgaria is still not affected by the infections in neighboring Romania, but we have to cope with the fact that there is an epidemic of a highly-pathogenic virus in domestic birds in our neighbors”, Kabil said and called on the Bulgarian citizens to keep their domestic birds in closed areas in order to prevent contact with wild birds."

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com [BLDGBLOG] Interview with Mike Davis: Part 2: Davis also explains how the "emergence of Third World 'supercities' and their slums" is roughly equivalent to the trenches of WWI, in that they now serve "as a human medium for potential pandemic spread and virulence evolution." Etc. My interest here is simply that this new geography of megaslums, with its incredible population densities and its unchecked proximities between humans and other, disease-bearing species (birds, rats, fleas, etc.), has become a new kind of ecosystem in the world, a virus incubator.

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