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Taro Toporific wrote: Japan reports outbreak of fast-spreading bird fluReuters, Jan 12
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has confirmed an outbreak of highly contagious bird flu, which has already ravaged parts of Asia's huge poultry industry in past weeks.
Caustic Saint wrote:Are there any animals left that don't have their own magical disease making them unfit to eat?
There always this:Caustic Saint wrote:Are there any animals left that don't have their own magical disease making them unfit to eat?
Caustic Saint wrote:Are there any animals left that don't have their own magical disease making them unfit to eat?
The only "meats" our cafeteria cook is willing to work with now are fish, octopus and clams.
I don't eat the octopus (it's like chewing on a fish-flavored eraser)
leathernick wrote:There always this:Caustic Saint wrote:Are there any animals left that don't have their own magical disease making them unfit to eat?
Taro Toporific wrote:Wait, it get's worse...
As well as Pakistan, bird flu has hit Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia.
GuyJean wrote:Boy Dies as Bird Flu Spreads
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/bird.flu/index.html
Taro Toporific wrote:Here's a travel idea:
Avian Flu ought to be peaking in May so airfare will be cheap for Golden Week.
cstaylor wrote:How did this come up? Business or cheap vacation?kamome wrote:I actually may be going to the boonies of Thailand next month. Any ideas where I can get one them there hazmat suits for my journey? :P
GomiGirl wrote:cstaylor wrote:How did this come up? Business or cheap vacation?kamome wrote:I actually may be going to the boonies of Thailand next month. Any ideas where I can get one them there hazmat suits for my journey? :P
With the semi-main squeeze?
kamome wrote:Call me a disease-opportunist. I also went to Thailand during the SARS scare last year and stayed at 5-star hotels at discount rates. Whenever I hear the words "epidemic", "plague", or "Civet Cat", I am SO THERE.
DUCK wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:I'm on the lookout from those damn ducks!
Quack!
Big Booger wrote:
Kill all the quackers hehehe
More than 10,000 chickens died at a poultry farm in Tanba over a one-week period from Jan. 20 and Thursday, according to prefectural government officials...
The latest case surfaced after local health authorities received anonymous calls Thursday evening..
Caustic Saint wrote:
Rice and kimchee do not make for a filling meal.
DUCK wrote:quack
GuyJean wrote:Bird Flu Suspected in Deaths of 10,000 Chickens at Kyoto Farm
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040227p2a00m0dm001001c.htmlMore than 10,000 chickens died at a poultry farm in Tanba over a one-week period from Jan. 20 and Thursday....
Why do I not hear much on the news about this? Oh, yeah! This is Japan!.. It's all them OTHER countries with problems..
GuyJean wrote:Bird Flu Suspected in Deaths of 10,000 Chickens at Kyoto Farm
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040227p2a00m0dm001001c.html
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Taro Toporific wrote:DUCK wrote:quackGuyJean wrote:Bird Flu Suspected in Deaths of 10,000 Chickens at Kyoto Farm
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040227p2a00m0dm001001c.htmlMore than 10,000 chickens died at a poultry farm in Tanba over a one-week period from Jan. 20 and Thursday....
Why do I not hear much on the news about this? Oh, yeah! This is Japan!.. It's all them OTHER countries with problems..
Dead crows test positive for bird flu in Japan...AFP via Yahoo! Mon Mar 08 2004 06:46:00 GMT+0900
TOKYO (AFP) - Two wild crows that were found dead tested positive for bird flu in Japan, providing a possible clue as to how the disease spread between the nation's third and fourth outbreaks.... Japan's fourth case of bird flu was confirmed in a small poultry farm with some 20,000 broiler chickens, about five kilometers away from the infected Asada Nosan Funai Nojo farm in Tanba , Kyoto, where one of the crows was found.
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