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...sextet normally roaming in the fortress grounds, now placed in aviaries. Still, the birds - and the nation - are safe for now. DUC CHICKEN France is Europe's biggest poultry-producing country - and its consumers are keen on organic and free-range produce. Or they were, before fears of avian flu cast a shadow. Duc, one of France's two publicly quoted poultry producers, is attaching photos of caged hens to its products as a marketing device. So far, though, sales are hardly flying in response. COQ A DOODLE DON'T Stewards at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium will be keeping...
...Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will tackle many issues at the summit, including tsunami relief, supporting the Afghan government, Iran's nuclear ambitions, returning democracy to Nepal, and containing avian flu. But one of the most crucial items on the agenda is the two nations' impending Nuclear Agreement. Last July, Singh and Bush agreed on the broad outlines of a nuclear deal that would require India to separate its military and civilian nuclear programs. In exchange the U.S. would share nuclear technology with India, whose population now exceeds one billion and whose energy demand has been voracious...
International donors at a conference in Beijing last month pledged $1.9 billion for global efforts to control bird flu. The latest news on the spread of the disease suggests this would be money well spent. Over the past two weeks, H5N1 avian flu has breached the heart of Europe, cropping up in Germany, Italy, Austria and France, among other countries. On Saturday, India confirmed its first outbreak of H5N1 in poultry, and began culling 500,000 birds in the western state of Maharashtra. Yet in a world where millions die every year because of diseases that could be prevented with...
...already be spreading under the radar to other parts of the continent. Africa has an estimated poultry population of 1.1 billion birds, many of them sharing living space with people?the same epidemiological powder keg that enabled bird flu to cause so much damage in much of Southeast Asia. Avian-flu experts see impoverished Africa, with its inefficient governments and millions of immuno-compromised HIV infectees, as a perfect breeding ground for a pandemic...
...This does not mean the world should neglect to take prudent steps to fight bird flu?a pandemic could become the greatest health catastrophe the modern world has ever faced. Avian flu is already beginning to cause real economic pain. When infected wild birds were detected last week in European countries, poultry sales across the continent plummeted. But a handful of dead swans on the Danube and a bad quarter for chicken sellers in Rome isn't why we're spending billions to fight bird flu. We want to stop the big one. A report released last week...