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...days later, setting off the latest upsurge of fear that the lethal virus might be invading Europe. The virus has already crept stealthily into the four corners of Turkey. As a stopover on migratory bird routes, the country has known for months that it was vulnerable to the natural spread of the disease. Last May, the Turkish Agriculture Ministry warned provincial officials to ban live-poultry markets. Few did. Then in October, 1,800 turkeys died on a farm near a wild-bird sanctuary in the northwest of the country. The area was swiftly quarantined, infected birds were culled...
...bird flu without getting sick. "It suggests more cases are not being picked up, and that the mortality rate is lower than the 50%" recorded by the who, says Oxford. That is not necessarily good news; he points out that a virus that kills at a lower rate but spreads quickly is more dangerous than one that kills at a higher rate but spreads more slowly. GLOBAL THREAT, GLOBAL RESPONSE Fending off a potential pandemic is not just the job of infected countries. Last week, the U.N. warned that Turkey's neighbors were at risk from avian flu unless they...
Villagers staged angry protests, condemning the U.S. for the killing of innocents. An official in Islamabad worried that demonstrations could spread. The Pakistani government has never had firm control over the borderlands, where many tribes see President Pervez Musharraf as a traitor for cooperating with the U.S. Musharraf is especially sensitive to claims that he allows the U.S. to conduct military operations in Pakistan. U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive a formal protest. Information Minister Sheik Rashid Ahmed announced, "We will not allow such incidents to reoccur." But U.S. officials insist that some...
...unusually high number of Cabot students became ill with a 24-hour stomach virus that spread rapidly amongst residents earlier this week. Harvard University Health Services (UHS) saw roughly 15 Cabot students suffering from gastroenteritis between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal. This represents a spike in occurrences, said Rosenthal, who added that UHS generally sees between six and eight cases of gastroenteritis per week in the winter. The increase and concentrated area of cases suggest that the virus was likely “communally transmitted, or came from one common source?...
...believe that everyone has the desire to be free,? Bush says, but his critics charge that the price of a war to spread freedom abroad has meant restricting it here at home. This is not just a matter of obvious and necessary measures to track bad guys and stop them. It includes the freedom to even have this argument...