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What's not funny about bird flu?

Good taste, bad taste, it all tastes like chicken

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Avian flu deaths rise to 10

China’s death toll from a new strain of bird flu rose to 10 on Thursday as a 74-year-old man died in Shanghai, with the number of infections now standing at 38, Bloomberg reported. Police also detained eight web users in the provinces of Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Gansu and Liaoning for “spreading rumors” online about the H7N9 […]

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Bird flu death toll rises

China on Tuesday reported two more fatalities from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death total to nine and raising the total number of infections to 33, state media reported. An 83-year-old man in Jiangsu province and a 35-year-old woman in Anhui province died of the H7N9 avian virus on Tuesday, while authorities […]

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Hangzhou, Nanjing cull birds as H7N9 cases rise

The eastern Chinese cities of Hangzhou and Nanjing slaughtered poultry and halted trading at poultry markets after new cases of the H7N9 strain of avian influenza were found, Bloomberg reported. A total of 18 human infections had been found in eastern China as of Sunday, with six deaths confirmed. The outbreak caused soybean futures and Chinese […]

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Four more cases surface of new avian flu

Health authorities in China announced on Tuesday that four more people have become infected and are critically ill with the H7N9 virus, an uncommon strain of what is known as bird flu, The New York Times reported. The four infected are from the city of Nanjing, northwest of Shanghai, and are between the ages of 32 […]