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Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania

Posted by Zonk on from the not-interested-in-seeing-this-one-close-up dept.

CMan0 writes "The BBC reports that a deadly version of the bird flu has been found in Romania. Several ducks and chickens have died on a farm in Romania this month of the disease, it has been confirmed. It's mentioned that the disease is spreading very rapidly, as the last known location of the disease was Siberia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan in August and the 1st of October in Turkey." From the article: "People appear dazed by what is happening, but since it was confirmed that this is the strain of the bird flu virus found in Asia, they have begun co-operating closely with officials sent to collect their birds, our correspondent says. Turkey has already reported the discovery of the lethal strain of the virus among birds in the west of the country. The EU has banned imports of live birds and poultry products from Romania and Turkey. EU veterinary experts said on Friday that the bird flu outbreak did not represent a risk to the general public 'at present'."

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  1. Re:And now by confusion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) Bush is quickly becoming so unpopular that congress people in his own party will disagree with him just to be able to get re-elected in the coming years, so I'm not going to buy that it'll be Bush's idea if it does happen.
    2) I'm guessing the states would be challenging anything like this quite hard, because as you say, that's what the national guard is for.
    3) This is quite off-topic.

  2. Don't take BBC/CNN by real in this by stm2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Do you remember when CNN alerted about the super-computer virus that seems to be the end of the world?
    This could be the same, I suggest to follow specific sources instead of general news-media. With computer security, you now AV companies, Secunia, CERT and so on.
    For this, my bet is: http://www.fas.org/promed/

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  3. Re:Faith the Fear by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    I think the preachers must have started to program their zombie army to TrollMod Slashdot, because the only "predictable response" my post could have been designed to elicit would be TrollMods leaping for their consoles to succor their invisible voices. TrollMod, get thee behind me!

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