The World Health Organization gave tacit confirmation on Tuesday that Chinese farmers had used controversial anti-viral drugs on poultry to curb the spread of bird flu, a practice China denied approving.This irresponsible activity on the part of China is dangerous. It's one thing if the bird flu becomes resistant to anti-virals after it has already saved lives and given researchers time to battle and constrain it. It's quite another thing if the virus is already resistant because China decided to allow it to be given to chickens.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Threat: Bird Flu. Location: China
You should worry about an easily spreadable bird flu coming out of Vietnam or even Korea, but maybe China should be more worrisome:
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