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...coming true. If a virus, as Nobel laureate Peter Medawar described it, "is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein," the past few weeks have had all the bad news the world can handle as avian influenza has broken out in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Already, the disease appears to have jumped the species barrier, killing at least four people, and the virus is suspected of causing another 10 deaths. Asia has stared down avian-flu outbreaks before, notably in Hong Kong in 1997 when the city's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department officials culled 1.4 million...
...Vietnam, where already more than 1 million birds have died from the virus, and at least another 800,000 have been slaughtered as a precaution, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) officials were reassuring the public as late as Jan. 7 that "there has been no sign the disease will affect human health"?even though 12 patients had already turned up at the National Institute of Pediatrics with an "unusual" virus, according to hospital director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem. Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam...
...effort to curtail the current avian-flu outbreak before any killer mutations can occur, public-health officials, epidemiologists and virologists are now scrambling to figure out the origin and genomic sequence of the flu strains in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. A 14-strong WHO team, including experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is expected to arrive in Hanoi by midweek. If they can determine where this virus came from, then perhaps better surveillance and monitoring of the poultry trade can curtail future outbreaks...
...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...
...government concentrator, Jahncke had opposed the Vietnam War and followed the primary process in New Hampshire with deep interest...