I've been watching the mass murder of poultry all day on Japanese TV because I'm home sick with some sort of damn flu. Arrrr. Now I'm on the lookout from those mucking ducks!
Hygiene center destroys 83 chickens from shrine amid bird flu scareTSU, Feb. 21 Kyodo ...Mie prefectural government said Saturday they have destroyed 83 pet chickens kept by a local Shinto shrine due to public concerns over bird flu, although the birds were healthy....The shrine did not want the presence of the birds to scare away visitors amid growing public fears over avian influenza, they said.
Killer bird flu hits new speciesToronto Star / Feb 21... Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan ? all keen to keep the virus from their borders ...likely spread by wild ducks....
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at 6:26 PM JST
Updated: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:30 PM JST
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Updated: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:30 PM JST
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