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Bird flu disaster edges closer to Calcutta
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by globaltoo | January 28, 2008 at 01:18 am
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An alarming situation has arisen in India where the bird flu epidemic has taken hold and spread further.
At present it has been confirmed in the Indian state of West Bengal with most of the districts in that state now affected.
Officials have said that over 2.5 million birds would be culled and health professionals fear the outbreak could get out of control.
No cases of human infection have still been reported.
Particularly alarming for officials is the fact the flu is getting to Calcutta. Already the disease has been confirmed only an hour's drive from the city.
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at 02:36 on January 28th, 2008
Hello Globaltoo,
Interesting cut and paste, but if you added some comments/insights of your own, it could become a good report, worthy of the GOOD STUFF flag. I'll come back a little later to see if you've added anything to your cut and paste.
~ Swan
at 03:12 on January 28th, 2008
I've added half a dozen photographs for you:
Sources:
ABC News
Aljazeera
Sify News
Kituz
Office of Registrar General, India
~ Swan
at 06:57 on January 28th, 2008
globaltoo, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 12:30 on January 28th, 2008
Sorry, can't really add much to this myself as I'm not there to experience it (thankfully).
But I am amazed how little coverage there is of this issue. Sure it's on the internet, on blogs etc but here in New Zealand if we didn't have the internet we'd be lucky to know about it - apart from a few paragraphs here and there.
The local papers just don't seem to be interested!
at 22:41 on January 28th, 2008
I agree with globaltoo, the newspaper coverage of this issue has not been great. I have a newspaper background and I can remember my first night sub-editing the "world" page. I'd found an article which I was going to put on the page about 10 or so African people being killed in an incident. I soon got told that unless there were a certain number of white people, or a hell of a lot of indigenous people involved then it wasn't of interest! That is a few years ago now, mabye attitudes have changed?