Bird Flu Monitor > China: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet

http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com [The Horse's Mouth] The name of 14 dead victims were published in a post at an Chinese domestic Internet site called 'Tienya Forum.' It said that most of the dead were farm workers from Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui Province, who were working at the area of Liaoning Province where Avian Flu is raging. The poster who published the list said that he did so in order to inform the victim's family of what happened.

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