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...very least, that China suspected this type of influenza might be afflicting its poultry but did not yet have the means to test. Both Japan and Taiwan have intercepted shipments of tainted duck meat from the mainland in the past year. Kim Sun Jwong, an avian-diseases expert at Seoul National University, believes the Middle Kingdom is the most likely provenance of Korea's H5N1 outbreak. And live chickens are also frequently traded along China's border with Vietnam. If China is seeding these outbreaks, then greater cooperation from mainland officials is essential to plugging the microbial...
...there could be an even more ominous disease vector at work?or in flight. For years, the greatest fear of many influenza experts has been the possibility that the H5N1 strain would infect migratory birds. Since huge amounts of virus are shed in bird feces, such an epidemic among migratory birds would mean death raining down from the sky in the form of H5N1 virus. In November and December of 2002, there were numerous migratory-waterfowl deaths due to H5N1 in Hong Kong's Penfold and Kowloon parks. Mysteriously, when further screenings of migratory birds were conducted immediately after...
...Mark Wrighton, assistant professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, was another expert surprised that Jahncke’s bid was even possible...
...feminists are in a major snit. One faction is muttering that the drug companies are sexist for taking so long to find a cure for female sexual dysfunction (FSD) while the fix for its male counterpart, erectile dysfunction, has been available for over five years. Others, like sex expert Shere Hite, are already denouncing the drug companies for "cynical money grabbing"--i.e., creating a disease in order to market a pill or a patch...
...whole-body rapture found in Mom's arms lasts only through infancy, but children become expert at seeking the same security as they grow older, and good parents have a sixth sense about what the priorities are. A wailing child with a cut knee gets a long hug first, even though it's the bleeding wound that needs attention. In uncounted thousands of such tactile transactions, kids learn to use touch as a means of connection at least as expressive as--and certainly more satisfying than--anything so detached as speech. With the pump thus primed, they are ready...