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...least 23 people and led to the death or culling of more than 100 million chickens-and that could be just the prelude. Last week China, Thailand and Vietnam all announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the bird culls earlier this year had eradicated it. Officials in China appear to have responded quickly, barring the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culling 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection. Thailand and Vietnam, which-like China-were slow to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avian Flu Hatches Again | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...people and leading to the death or culling of more than 100 million chickens - and that could be just the prelude. Last week China , Thailand and Vietnam all announced that they had chickens infected with the virulent H5N1 virus that causes avian flu, dashing hopes that the widespread bird culls had eradicated it. Officials in China quickly barred the export of poultry from the affected Anhui province and culled 30,000 birds within a three-kilometer radius of the original infection. So far, officials say there's no evidence that humans have been infected in this latest outbreak. Researchers warn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/11/2004 | See Source »

Tsarapkin accepted the ibis with the thanks of the students of University of Moscow. Still, the copper bird made for an odd—and awkward—gift...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon, Crimson Face Off in Intra-Collegiate Rivalry | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

Updike’s staff retaliated by kidnapping The Crimson’s president and managing editor and demanding back the copper bird as ransom. Eventually he released the newspaper leaders, who, instead of returning the ibis, presented it to the USSR’s deputy representative to the United Nations as a peace offering...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...thing young children and their grandparents could enjoy together. That may shed some light on the line about strawberry ice cream, but it does not explain why a once respectable band consented to sing a song so sugary it would send the Archies into shock. This is catchier than bird flu and possibly just as dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The 12 Songs Of Summer | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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