Good thing Bush has the border closed. <snort>  Wouldn't want any
nukes or a happy pandemic to slip through. Anyway, since China is hell
bent on destroying the planet along with the mooslums with their
massive production of pollutants, economic thugery and lack of basic
hygiene in the farming, production and cooking of fowl.

--
Keith

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/07220501/H5N1_Raging_Pandemic_China.html
(extra 'rumor mill' story I found FWIW if anything)

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050722/1/3tobx.html

Saturday July 23, 2:14 AM
Massive flu outbreak could happen at any moment, WHO warns

" The world could at any time be faced with a massive flu outbreak
like those in 1918 or 1968 that killed tens of millions of people, the
World Health Organization warned, urging countries to be prepared.

"History has told us that no one can stop a pandemic. The question is:
when is it going to happen?" WHO spokeswoman Margaret Chan told
reporters.

"I don't think anybody has the answer to it. We have to be on the
lookout for any time, any day," she added.

Deadly avian influenza, which has killed 55 people in Asia since
resurfacing in 2003, has the potential to become a major human
pandemic if the virus were to mutate and allow human-to-human
transmission, Chan said.

The HN51 strain of bird flu, which has killed hundreds of thousands of
birds, constitutes one of several "warnings from nature" -- the first
since 1968, according to Chan, Hong Kong's director of health from
1994 to 2003.

"We collectively, particularly national authorities, have to take a
very conscientious decision: if you are given early signals and if you
are not prepared, you have a very difficult case to answer if indeed
it happens," she said.

"Our experience is that if you are prepared for a pandemic, you get
less impact in terms of mortality, morbidity, social and economic
disruption."

Chan admitted that preparation for a possible flu pandemic could
divert resources from other health emergencies like the fight against
AIDS or polio, but said such measures would improve the tracking of
life-threatening diseases.

After Indonesia earlier this week announced its first human deaths
from bird flu, and cases were reported in Siberian poultry, Chan
warned that "the scope is getting wider and wider".

The WHO's greatest fear is that human influenza and bird flu could
somehow combine to unleash a pandemic on the world.

"With winter coming, we need to enhance our vigilance," she said.

She reminded countries struck by bird flu to limit contact between
humans and live poultry, as well as contact between different species
in live markets.

Such rules were implemented in Hong Kong when bird flu first appeared
in 1997, and no cases -- either in animals or humans -- have been
reported there since, Chan added.

The expert said the Geneva-based WHO was still awaiting samples taken
from migratory birds in China, 6,000 of which have died in Qinghai
province since May.

Chinese researchers believe the strain afflicting their birds could be
even more deadly than the HN51 strain.

"We have impressed upon them the importance of sharing these
specimens. We will not give up our effort: we owe it to the world,
it's a global health security issue," Chan told reporters. "

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