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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 12:20 PM        Scary shit
Bird flu could be bigger than SARS, WHO says

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Hanoi — The bird flu that has raced through chicken farms in Asia and killed at least three people in Vietnam could become a bigger problem for the region than SARS, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The avian flu has killed millions of chickens in South Korea, Vietnam and Japan, where officials have ordered mass culls to try to contain the outbreak. Hong Kong and Cambodia have banned poultry imports from countries affected by the bird flu.

WHO says tests are being conducted to determine if the deaths of six additional people in Vietnam are linked to the disease, but has stressed that there has been no person-to-person spread of the disease.

Health officials attribute infections in humans to contact with the feces of sick birds.

If the virus develops the ability to spread through human contact, it could become a big health crisis, WHO regional co-ordinator Peter Cordingley said Wednesday in Manila.

It's “a bigger potential problem than SARS because we don't have any defences against the disease,” Mr. Cordingley said. “If it latches on to a human influenza virus, then it could cause serious international damage.”

The bird flu scare comes just as China grapples with new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), another ailment believed to have originated in animals and which ravaged the region's economy in a major outbreak last year.

China last week confirmed its first SARS case of the season, and has since announced two additional suspected cases, all in southern Guangdong province, next to Hong Kong.

The bird flu's symptoms in humans include fever and coughing and eventual pneumonia — similar to SARS.

The three avian flu deaths in Vietnam — an adult and two children — were confirmed Tuesday as Influenza A or the H5N1 strain, the same virus found in sick chickens in the country's south, WHO said. The same strain of bird flu killed six people in Hong Kong in 1997, when more than 1 million chickens and ducks were culled.

Health officials say they believe there is no danger from eating properly cooked meat or the eggs of affected chickens. Still, governments and businesses in the region sought to bolster consumer confidence in their poultry industries.

“There is no case reported of humans infected by taking chicken meat or eggs,” Japanese Agriculture Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei said, urging people to remain calm.

Japanese officials said 10,000 chickens had died from the bird flu and thousands of others would be slaughtered.

The disease is spreading quickly among poultry in Vietnam, where more than one million chickens have died in the latest outbreak. Farmers have been ordered to destroy all sick birds.

An official at Ho Chi Minh City's only crematorium said the facility has been running at full capacity, 24 hours a day, over the past few days, incinerating more than two tonnes of dead chickens a day.

Thailand, among the world's largest poultry exporters, declared itself free of bird flu.

An outbreak starting last month in South Korea led to the slaughter of 1.1 million chickens and ducks in an attempt to contain the disease.
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 12:32 PM       
why is it always china? or at least the far east that is so susceptible to these outbreaks?
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 12:34 PM       
Because there are so many of them they have to sleep in piles, and then they put their suits on and travel all over the planet.
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 12:50 PM       
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 12:59 PM       
It's true! There's like a million Chinese people per square inch. No wonder disease spreads fast and hard.
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 01:05 PM       
Well hey, it made ME laugh.
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 01:16 PM       
Me too. : (
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 02:19 PM       
I think we need to join up with PETA, brothers and sisters, and stop this senseless genocide of innocent chickens!
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 04:39 PM       
Let's see, chickens have been killed to stop this flu virus, and cats are being slaughtered to prevent the spread of SARS. Add dogs and pidgeons, and you'll have all the animals used in your favourite Chinese restaurant.

I can say this stuff because I'm part Chinese.
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 07:54 PM       
Hi i'm OAO and I'm a huge middle aged fatty wearing shorts in my parents basement pretending to be a highschooler and getting a chubby! Everybody knows the WHO really wants to kill everyone! I'm selling CATO cookies! Anybody want to buy a box of Laissez Fair Patties?
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 07:54 PM       
I don't know how, but this is obviously part of some plot by the Bush Administration.
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Old Jan 14th, 2004, 11:39 PM       
Thats diabolical.
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Old Jan 15th, 2004, 04:55 PM       
Vegan coercion, methinks! Dem tofu-eaters are startin' to play hardball
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