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...Vietnam's traditional poultry practices are dangerous because dense populations of people and birds mingle at virtually every step of production, from chick to ph? pot. With the virus embedded in the local duck and chicken population, repeated human-bird contact means "it's inevitable you'll get human infection," says Webster. Vietnam is trying to halt such infections by modernizing its poultry industry, limiting human-bird contact, but that won't be easy. More than 80% of its poultry producers are small-scale farmers who raise a few dozen birds to eat or sell?and few keep their flocks...
...Reports of discontent have filtered out of the North for years, but this is the first time such sentiments have been filmed, according to Do Hee Yun, whose group, the Citizen's Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees, released the footage. Do says a contact in China had smuggled the video out of the North; defectors from the area have said that the factory and other buildings shown in the footage are in Hoiryong, a small town near the border with China. The filmmakers, who call themselves the Youth Freedom League, have cells in other North...
...U.S-led war in Iraq, will be returned to power. Glimmer of Hope MIDDLE EAST Palestinian police began patrolling the border between Gaza and Israel after new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security services to stop rocket attacks on Israel. Israeli officials approved the deployment when they resumed contact with Abbas' administration a week after breaking it off. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, one of the militant groups responsible for the attacks, reportedly lent its support to Abbas' call for a cease-fire. In from the Cold AFGHANISTAN As part of an initiative to end the Taliban insurgency...
...We’re in contact with PharmaCare,” UHS Compliance Officer Barbara Skane said yesterday evening. “We’ve expressed to them how serious this is and that we’re asking their senior management to look into it to see what we can do to correct any inappropriate access.” She added she did not yet know whether PharmaCare’s website might violate HIPAA, a federal law prohibiting the unauthorized disclosure of individual medical records...
...have been in contact with our partners in the state and local law enforcement agencies to see if there’s any specific threat against the University,” said HUPD spokesman Steve Catalano. “At this time, no specific threat against the University has been made...