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POPSBird Flu in Russia - Chicken Kiev Nightmare! 600,000 chickens killed at one farm near Rostov on Don because of bird flu - that's a lot of chickens but industrial poultry farming is a global phenomena and is a part of what makes controlling or preventing the next killer pandemic flu more likely rather than less likely.
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POPSBird Flu Capital? Indonesia! It is crystal clear that Indonesia does not have a handle on the spread of bird flu among its people. See table and you will see that Viet Nam seems to have improved its abilities to cope. Let's hope they stay with it in the coming year.
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POPSLittle Saudi Arabia: Big Poultry Producer Saudi Arabia gets rich on oil but has joined global poultry market rush to make super profits on birds. The unintended consequence of all this profit chasing? Bird flu is and will remain global problem and most probable source of next global pandemic!
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POPS92 Buckle Your Shoe - Bird Flu Death 92 Virus passes from one to another from feces, saliva, sweat, and urine. "He said the victim, who had sold ornamental plants, bought plant fertilizer from the neighbor which may have been contaminated by the faeces of infected birds. No birds however had died in the area in the past six months and the poultry appeared healthy, he added."
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POPSCulling 4 million chickens won't stop bird flu in Arabia Very vigorous response by the Saudi's unfortunately, it will not guarantee keeping commercial poultry flocks free of avian flu. Vaccination will help but more novel or innovative means are called for. For example - they could stop raising chickens and other poultry for a year or so.
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POPSNeed for Cash and Protein from Poultry Drives Bird Flu The desire for cheap protein, as well as extra cash in cash strapped areas illustrates why "culling" or killing thousands of birds does not suppress re-emergence of avian influenza. If you need the cash, you hide some birds or you re-import roosters and hens with no or few questions asked. Another solution is needed to break the cycle.
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POPSChina, Lunar New Year Food, and Bird Flu Nothing wrong with having New Year and chicken too but current methods of farming and (not) controlling the spread of bird flu can add up to disaster for Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans and world if it triggers a new pandemic flu. It takes 16 weeks to grow a tender chicken, goose or duck. Five weeks ago farmers hatched chickens, geese and ducks for live delivery in week before and after February 7, 2008 - Lunar New Year, or Tet in Viet Nam.
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POPSBird Flu, Tet, and Lunar New Year This is an old article but illustrates the connections between Tet, or Lunar New Year celebrations and the unintentional creating of conditions favorable to produce new versions of the flu or even a new pandemic from bird flu leaping to human to human pandemic flu..
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POPSOld Russia Global Leader in Drug-Resistant TB? The Russian government wants those who left in the 1990's to return home and is willing to pay their way. How about getting a handle on TB, as well as bird flu first and then invite people to come home? Then you can boost tourist trade too!
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POPSLunar New Year Poultry Production Drives Pandemic Risk In China, Viet Nam and South Korea Lunar New Year, or Tet celebrations are "gotta" have live chicken, goose, or duck to good luck and prosperity. This brings millions and millions of birds to holding pens for sale at just the right time. And it provides perfect breading ground for new/old flu and for a novel or new pandemic flu derived from bird flu. Wake up folks - culling alone will not stop millions of farmers from doing whatever they have to do to make the cash they need for their family's prosperity.
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POPSGet Ready for Lunar New Year and New Flu Pandemic Get Ready for Lunar New Year and New Flu Pandemic. As hundreds of thousands of growers step up production of poultry and pork for Lunar New Year, new versions of flu get cooked up and bird flu spreads again and perhaps turns into new pandemic or replay of "Spanish flu pandemic" from 1914-1918 era.
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POPSHow Next Pandemic Will Explode, Not Evolve The Old School of virus development sees drift and shift as the means of evolution. This site shows how the system is also made up of quantum leaps of change to enable systems to regain balance - especially after we humans have upset a local, regional, or global balance. Viruses are nature's way of re-balancing what appears to be out of balance.
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POPSOpps! We have bird flu, now we don't, now we do again! Opps! Now we have bird flu, now we don't now we have it, now we don't! Need a new version of "Ring Round the Rosie" for when bird flu jumps to people in a form that foster pandemic - since government officials seem more concerned with sales of poultry, than health of people or birds.
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POPSBad Joke of the Day - India Bird Flu Free - Not! Bad joke or too much love for the rupee, dollar, yuan, or euro. If being avian influenza free for three months makes a state bird flu free, then China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia and other states have been flu free repeatedly and then - opps! - we have bird flu again. Bad joke for sake of making money.
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POPSBritish Bird Flu - New Outbreak! Yes, it is a blow to farming but account misses point that if bird flu becomes a global pandemic, farmers will be among the victims and will have, perhaps, 50 million fewer people to sell to worldwide!
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POPSPandemic Lottery Heats Up! As millions of farmers work hard to get billions of birds and pigs ready for the Lunar New Year in 2008 market, they begin the annual lottery wheel yet again for bird flu making a more effective jump to being a pandemic or simply creating a new variant of the old flu that resembles the 1918 version. If the current methods have not controlled repeated outbreaks of bird flu over the last five years, then it's time to try new methods - right?
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POPSWinter May Bring More Bird Flu as Poultry Market Grows UN warns of more bird flu but misses the obvious causes when it is noted that virus "likes" the cold weather. During Lunar New Year or Tet, millions of people want chicken, duck, goose or pork for their holiday meals and festivals. That drives millions of farmers and big farm corporations to raise chickens, ducks, geese and pigs for growing global "meat" market and the Lunar New Year. That, annually, contributes to a new version of flu and more opportunities for transmitting bird flu. Billions of birds and piglets jammed together to be sold live for the holiday are the perfect breeding ground for the next pandemic. Improved methods at that point are the key to breaking the flu pandemic cycle.
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POPS$$ Talks! India -Vegitarian- But Big Time Poultry Exporter Chicken and Duck has gone global and it's not just Kentucky Fried Chicken or McChicken. All in all, the money involved increases the chances that Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) or a variant will be the next global killer and in the not too distant future. " On February 18, 2006 , an outbreak of avian influenza virus type H5N1 in poultry was reported in Navapur, Nandurbar district, Maharashtra state of India . This is the first confirmed occurrence of H5N1 in India . Outbreaks reportedly began on January 27, 2006 , and involved chickens in both commercial and backyard farms. News reports indicate that about 50,000 birds died."
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POPSBird Flu Still Killing Indonesians The H5N1 virus also killed two children in Tangerang regency last month; 13-year-old Irfan who died on Oct. 13, and four-year-old Dewi Aprilianti who died on Oct. 22.
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POPSEU and Bird Flu "I opened the window and in flew Enza!" That's the line sang by children during 1918 pandemic that killed millions around the world. The "hunger" for greater profits and markets from ducks, chickens and geese may may be facilitating the next pandemic which will kill even more - read on...
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POPSThe dead duck - Wally ? It might have the flu! You want to test the prey of shotgun carrying guys who can already taste their roast duck? Handling dead ducks or chickens is what gave bird flu to kids in Indonesia recently - one of whom died. Maybe the people will be wearing chem-warfare rubber suits - that will give the hunters a lot of confidence.
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