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When people living in the remote Danube Delta villages of Ceamurlia de Jos and Maliuc heard last week that their chickens and ducks would have to be destroyed to help prevent the spread of the Avian flu virus, they reacted in different ways. Some wept and prayed as they handed over their birds; others tried to hide them. Said Ceamurlia resident Gina Braileanu, "My uncle was caught hiding a hen close to his chest. He had to give...
...Days after the flu virus first appeared on the shores of Europe, local farmers in the former communist country of Romania were struggling to cope. The Danube Delta is one of the most pristine wildernesses in Europe, teeming with wildlife, rare species and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that pass annually through the region on the way to their wintering grounds in north Africa. This year, those birds are carrying with them a dangerous infection that doctors fear could, if it makes the leap to humans, unleash the deadliest flu pandemic since...
...Another 15 swans died Monday in the hamlet of Popina in the northeast of the Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. This makes three outbreaks of bird flu to be confirmed in Romania. Further south, the eastern Greek island of Inousses is under watch while tests are conducted on an infected turkey. Results won't be in for days and authorities have yet to order a mass slaughter of fowl there, but state vets are also looking into scores of other bird flu scares reported in mainland Greece within in the last 24 hours...
...March, Lu moved to a factory in the Delta, packing Christmas trees for export to America. A reporter invited him to a restaurant in Guangzhou to meet with legal reformers. They discussed Taishi, where villagers were trying to impeach their chief amid corruption allegations. Lu decided to help. On July 31, he addressed the villagers from atop a heap of bricks, which gave the movement its informal name: Rubble Pile Democracy...
...That was then. Last week, Lu was beaten unconscious in the Pearl River Delta town of Taishi, where? accompanied by a journalist from the Guardian, a British newspaper?he had gone to help residents impeach their own village chief. "Three hundred meters from the village headquarters, we were stopped by men on motorcycles and the car was suddenly surrounded by many people," Lu told TIME last week, speaking in a safe house in Wuhan. "They recognized me and said 'That's the one!' I guess they'd been shown my picture. They opened the door and dragged...