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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (17820)	5/27/2003 3:43:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Food scandals were and are not limited to the UK! Several years ago, people died in Spain because they fried their "paellas" with poisonous oil (motor oil mixed with food oil!!!), some French wine producers have been accused of mixing their vintage wine with plonk.... Here's the latest, NON-UK food scandal: Last Updated: Tuesday, 22 April, 2003 'No mutation' in Dutch bird virus A Dutch vet believed to have died of bird flu was not suffering from a mutated form of the virus, the Dutch health ministry has been quoted as saying. The 57-year-old vet died of pneumonia last week, sparking fears that the bird flu virus might have mutated into a potentially deadly new human form of flu. But health officials now believe he had contracted only the "normal" form of the bird virus. The Netherlands has been in the grip of the outbreak for weeks, and the disease has now spread across the border into Belgium. Belgium authorities announced at the weekend that an extra 270,000 birds were being culled, on top of 250,000 already being slaughtered. In the Netherlands, some 16 million birds have been killed. Officials had stressed that there was little danger to human health. But as well as the death of the vet, dozens of people have now contracted conjunctivitis. Dutch ministers have announced an independent inquiry into the vet's death. He became ill two days after working on a farm affected by the bird flu virus. [...] news.bbc.co.uk