Bird Flu Monitor > China’s Bird Flu Credibility Issue

http://flufactor.blogspot.com [fluFactor] The Chinese would have us believe that the people administering the vaccination program in Dalian killed 5% of a very large flock before anyone noticed that they could use a little more training! Don’t you think that someone in management might have though there was a problem when they had only killed off 5 or 10 thousand birds?

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