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...remote, impoverished Turkish town of Dogubeyazit, a chicken is more than just a bird. For the hardscrabble villagers, it's often the only source of dietary protein, and for their children, the only toy. So it was no surprise that 15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit and her 14-year-old brother Mehmet Ali played with the sick fowl their father had brought indoors for protection from the bitter December cold. The fun proved fatal. The children came down with high fevers and bleeding throats; when they went to a nearby hospital, they received ordinary medication for a cold and were...
...John Oxford, a professor of virology at London's Queen Mary's School of Medicine. "Even the dad whose children died can reassure himself of that." The most crucial item of scientific information: who officials say they have so far seen nothing to indicate that the Turkish victims contracted bird flu from other people, the potential nightmare that could lead to a pandemic. Virologists at the National Institute for Medical Research (nimr) in London, which is home to the World Influenza Centre, analyzed the sequence of genes in the h5n1 virus that killed the Kocyigits. They found the structure...
...unlikely to be most vulnerable. Tamiflu's manufacturer, Roche, has promised to increase production tenfold from its 2004 level, to 300 million 10-pill courses by the end of 2007. A rush order of 100,000 courses was sent last week to Turkey, where 20 people with symptoms of bird flu remained hospitalized, including the last surviving sibling in the Kocyigit family...
...Bird Flu Overhyped? Anxiety about avian flu is spreading far faster than the disease...
...money's worth in 1933, as you will with this set that collects the three Cooper-Schoedsack simian sensations (Kong and its less fearsome offspring), all animated by stop-motion ace Willis O'Brien. Among the invaluable extras: a splendid documentary on Cooper by Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird, and a making-of feature on the original Kong--still the eighth wonder of the movie world...