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...Ngan isn't worried about bird flu. In a Phnom Penh market stall encrusted with chicken excrement, the 30-year-old Cambodian sells live birds shipped fresh each morning from farms that border Vietnamese provinces that have been struck hard by the disease. But Ngan is confident her merchandise is safe. Her chickens "are exposed to the sunlight and can eat from the earth," she explains, "so the disease does not affect them." Besides, she adds, "only foreign chickens are affected, not the local ones...
...does it take so long to develop a vaccine? All flu shots contain a blend of several virus strains, which take about four months to grow into a single strain inside chicken eggs in the lab. Doses can't be saved from year to year because the same strain rarely shows up in two flu seasons...
...preparing for a possible pandemic? The U.S. is testing a prototype vaccine and has already placed an order for a limited supply of this shot, which can be mass-produced if needed. Health officials also plan to fund a year-round supply of the chicken eggs needed to grow the vaccine virus strains. In addition, they are stockpiling the antiviral drug Tamiflu, which is effective in preventing and treating even new viral strains like H5N1. --By Alice Park
...White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken for Russia.) U.S. aides say that to help fight against this kind of misinformation, they are struggling to build relationships that go beyond Putin. "We need to go deeper into the well...
Does the food at Annenberg get better with age? “I’ve dined at Annenberg on and off over the last 14 years, and I have to say that I have a certain weakness for the popcorn chicken,” he says. When asked about the lovely Domna, Selsby says, “she and I go way back...