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To: RealMuLan who wrote (53782)	9/28/2004 11:41:41 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Global crisis fear on bird flu 29sep04 THAILAND has confirmed its first likely case of human-to-human infection of bird flu, hours after UN agencies labelled the disease a "crisis of global importance". A Thai public health ministry statement said yesterday a 26-year-old woman who died from the disease had probably caught the illness from her sick daughter. The woman, who died eight days ago after caring for her 11-year-old daughter in hospital, is potentially the first person to have caught bird flu from another human in the wave of cases that have hit Asia this year. The daughter also died and is listed as a suspected victim of the virus that has claimed at least 10 people in Thailand this year. The girl's aunt was also confirmed yesterday as having bird flu, but is recovering in hospital. The worst case scenario that concerns the World Health Organisation is that the virus mutates into a highly contagious form and trigger a global flu pandemic in humans. A mutated bird flu outbreak was blamed for the deaths of up to 40 million people worldwide in 1918. ... heraldsun.news.com.au

To: RealMuLan who wrote (53782)	9/28/2004 3:07:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yiwu, Hong Kong was leased, so it was due to go back to China. Tibet was an easy take, cornered up against the Himalayas and not of large strategic import to outsiders. Nor is that story finished yet. Even Hong Kong's story isn't finished, as the mobs on the street remind us from time to time. You might yet find Tibet becomes independent. You Chinese too often take a short term view, unlike we Westerners who think in thousands of years. It's too soon to say whether Tibet will remain conquered. The USSR had a few countries conquered for a while, but oops a daisy, that all changed not long ago, to the surprise of a lot of people. Also, your use of English is a little wonky, which is of course understandable since its your second language. Whining is a bit different from what I'm doing. In fact, quite a lot different. Your writing is usually whining, about the West and its success. You whine about how the USA is no good, China is great, the West is a failure, freedom is phony, blah, blah, blah. Yet you scuttle off to the USA to make money as soon as you get a chance. Of course, your whining is nothing compared with a fleet of Koreans considering QUALCOMM royalties, who sound like a fleet of 747s taking off. They have the same idea as you, being take-meme receivers of a long-ago bloke by the name of Khan who was given to violently taking, not trading. Though he did make LOTS of sperm donations - 7% of China's population or some such carry his contamination it seems. Taking was also popular around the world, so it's not as though you have a monopoly, so don't get big-headed. We will find out in a decade or three what the Taiwanese decide to do and then, what the Evil Empire in Beijing decides to do and then, what the Fighters for Freedom in the USA decide what to do. Not to mention the Japanese, or the South Koreans, who might decide that a megalomaniac China isn't a good idea. China for thousands of years ran along Gengkis Khan type rulz. Most of us around the world decided a century or two ago that we prefer a more benign form of dictatorship called mob rule, aka democracy. China runs on the arrogance of the aristocracy. So do other places, but they can be fired in a democracy. China's national socialism needs some liebensraum, and traditional countries reoccupied. Where have we heard that before? I'm just an observer, though I'm kindly supporting both sides with my CDMA, which might yet soothe the troubled minds of the war-mongers with the anodyne rays emanating in CDMA2000 phragmented photons, suffusing the fevered brains of users across China and the USA. China and the USA pay tribute to me. It's a wonderful world. As long as chicken flu stays in chicken soup form, and military MADness doesn't go AWOL. Mqurice