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...recent outbreak of stomach sickness among Dunster and Mather House residents serves as an important reminder of how dependent we undergraduates are on Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) for our daily meals. Complain though we may about the hokey table tent slogans and the persistent tri-weekly presence on our dinner menu of such culinary atrocities as General Wong’s Chicken, habit and our mandatory $3,792 a year unlimited meal plan continue to drive us day after day into the hallowed halls of HUDS. Yet House dining in its present form is costly, inefficient, restrictive...
Fortunately, the University is looking into the true cause of the outbreak. EHS director Joseph Griffin quickly sent 11 samples of dining hall food to the Massachusetts State Laboratories. An initial analysis showed no signs of a contagion, with more extensive results expected today. We heartily look forward to learning this information, which is is important to the student body—we need to know whether we should be avoiding our sickly-looking peers or the undercooked pork chops...
...Since the 1997 outbreak when Hong Kong authorities' citywide slaughter of 1.4 million chickens was largely credited with stopping the flu's spread, the government has instituted several preventive measures: increased testing of imported chickens, segregating live waterfowl from other poultry at markets and enforcing a monthly market "rest day" to disinfect cages...
...Even though all three recent H5N1 chicken strains are related to a goose virus that originated in Guangdong, when Hong Kong inspectors find diseased mainland chickens, they are not allowed to trace the outbreak across the border to its source...
...Mainland officials well know that chicken flu is bad for business. After each H5N1 outbreak, Hong Kong has banned poultry imports from China, if only temporarily. When Macau detected H5N1 in Chinese geese last May, Chinese waterfowl imports were banned for three months. And after avian flu was detected in Chinese duck meat by Seoul authorities in mid-2001, Japan and South Korea imposed a two-month ban. Within days of Hong Kong's latest outbreak, sales of chicken plunged 80%?an estimated loss to retailers of $13 million. "This is supposed to be our peak season," says Wong...