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...death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms. He was hospitalized on Dec. 31, and tested negative for the H5N1 virus that causes avian flu. Viet deteriorated rapidly and died on Jan. 9. The next day, his younger brother Nguyen Thanh Hung, who had taken care of Viet in the hospital, became ill. When Thanh Hung...
...Rural Development estimates the economic loss of all that poultry at just under 0.5% of GDP, or $195 million. Nguyen Vau Be and his family in rural Long An province raised 100 ducks to pay for their holiday celebrations and food this year, but when the birds became sick recently, they were forced to kill them. "There's no Tet for us this year," says wife Truong Thi Dua, watching as the live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total of $32 for their culled birds, less than they borrowed...
...Calling in Sick Pfizer, makers of Benylin cough remedies, co-launched a range of cell-phone ringtones made to sound like different types of coughing...
Democrats need to tell voters they have an obligation to help the poor, an obligation to defend the disenfranchised and the oppressed. Voters are sick and tired of being appealed to like consumers. They want to feel like their vote is more than something they trade in for a tax break or a subsidy. That’s why the evangelicals do so well. They don’t offer salvation on the cheap, but they do offer a chance to be part of something larger than the individual...
Worthingtons had lived in Truro for generations. In fact, one of the first rescue workers at the scene was Christa's cousin. Christa had moved there from New York City to care for her sick mother. She had had an affair with a local fisherman, which produced Ava. After her mother died, Christa decided to stay. In her shingled house on a hill, surrounded by a tangle of spindly trees, she had started a new life, although not necessarily a frictionless one. What with family strains and frustrated romances, there were plenty of obvious suspects. Semen was found on Worthington...