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Thursday, January 15, 2004

Bird flu

Bird flu threat 'worse than Sars'

.....Serious outbreaks of the avian flu, which normally affects poultry, have led to the culling of millions of chickens in Vietnam, Japan and South Korea......

.....'It is possible that the bird flu virus spreads from chickens to pigs before jumping on to humans,'.....

.....Symptoms of bird flu in humans include fever, coughing and eventual pneumonia, and - as with Sars - they are similar to many other common, but less lethal, ailments.....

First the mad cow disease, now the bird flu viruses in chickens and pigs. What's next? Maybe we should all turn vegetarians although I can't survive a day without meat.

With all these terrorists attacks and diseases like Sars, what is the world coming to? There didn't seem to be so much problems growing up, or maybe I wasn't paying attention before.