Deadly New Bird Flu Virus in China Possibly Linked to Dead Pigs

http://economicrisis.com/deadly-new-bird-flu-virus-in-china-possibly-linked-to-dead-pigs/3905 Deadly New Bird Flu Virus in China Possibly Linked to Dead Pigs A new and deadly strain of bird flu is threatening two eastern Chinese provinces, with health authorities and...

Death of Chinese woman in Russia, conflicting reports about cause

It still remains unclear whether the Chinese woman who died on Wednesday on the train bound for Moscow from the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk (near the Chinese border) has died from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or some other infectious agent. SARS is an...

China Death Penalty For Poisoned Milk

Chinese officials have passed a new law providing for severe punishments for adulteration of milk.  This comes on the heels of officials addressing WHO saying that the massive additions of melamine to the Chinese milk supply was "accidental".Until this milk scandal...

Bats Not Cats to Blame for SARS

I knew those bats were up to something -- with their night flying, their sonar systems, and their disease spreading ways...And it's strange to think that the virus travelled from bats to humans to civets to pigs...

Uganda: Nation On Ebola Alert

[Ed.note] This is extremely serious and dangerous. Breaking news from allAfrica: THE government yesterday announced that suspected cases of the lethal Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been reported in seven more districts. State Minister for Primary Healthcare, Dr Emmanuel...

China SARS-Coverup-Mayor Becomes Province Governor

BEIJING, Aug 30 – Meng Xuenong, the ex-Beijing mayor sacked for involvement in the 2003 SARS epidemic, was named as the Provincial Governor of Shanxi on Thursday, the official China News Service reported.  Meng was dismissed from his Beijing mayor position in April...

Masking bird flu: US students volunteer for study

It's interesting that this study is mostly seeking to discover what psychological effects the masks have on other people. That masks are commonplace in Asian countries doesn't make it any easier for westerners to...

Feminizing the Proletariat

"Here is an excellent post on why women are the proletariat, not a special interest group, nor a minority . Nor is womens work in the social factory valued anymore than it is in the home. Women's work is real work My recent starting of a job in childcare has got...

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