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...film industry made $52 billion--but would have made $3.5 billion more if not for piracy, according to a Smith Barney estimate released in November. Next year the loss may rise to $5.4 billion. Brandon can't hope to stop bootlegs of Warner Bros. releases from spreading like a virus. It's a Herculean task just to delay the inevitable. "It's not a matter of if," he says, "but when." And when makes a huge difference. If a high-quality copy is made before a film's lucrative first weekend in release, the studio can lose tens of millions...
...avian flu. China refuses to officially acknowledge that it has an H5N1 problem. But as recently as last March, according to a document obtained by TIME, China's Ministry of Health was requesting from the WHO H5N1 reagents, which are used to test for presence of antibodies to the virus. That would indicate, at the 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...
...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...
...Asia, there is no program in place to systematically sample migratory birds to determine which viruses they carry. In Europe, virologist Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has launched a survey in which fecal samples are submitted from around the continent for testing. "We've found the proteins that indicate the presence of various avian influenzas," says Osterhaus. The prevalence of viruses in migratory birds may have been responsible for an avian-flu outbreak in the Netherlands last year that infected 80 people, killing one. The virus responsible, an H7, which was less deadly than the H5 strain...
...similar infection pattern is occurring in Asia among migratory birds, then this killer flu virus will keep recurring in chickens, and possibly humans. That will be very bad news?wrapped around a virus...