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To: elmatador who wrote (79187)1/31/2007 1:08:30 PM
From: ldo79  Respond to of 206085
 
O/T

<It is hot down there. It is very unlikely to have migrating birds flying -from cold countries- down there.>

Another oil/gas producing area being effected is Indonesia / Java.

BTW - It's currently 81 degrees in Jajarta.

Indonesia to declare bird flu a national disaster

JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster, giving the government access to special funds to combat the disease that has killed 63 people nationwide, the planning minister said Wednesday.

"It has become an epidemic," Paskah Suzetta told reporters in the capital, where authorities were preparing for the compulsory slaughter of thousands of backyard chickens as part of high profile efforts to fight the H5N1 virus.

"The president has indicated he will declare it a national disaster so money can be allocated from the state budget's disaster fund."

Indonesia, which has tallied more than a third of the world's human deaths, has been criticized in the past for failing to crack down on bird flu when it first appeared in poultry stocks nearly four years ago.

It is now endemic in chickens almost all over the country and, despite optimism late last year that it may have been contained, killed six people in the last month.

thejakartapost.com



To: elmatador who wrote (79187)1/31/2007 2:41:00 PM
From: Paul Kern  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206085
 
Next April is going to be 21 years after the cheese eating. I'm still OK :-)

But do you glow in the dark?



To: elmatador who wrote (79187)1/31/2007 4:35:31 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 206085
 
Elmat, did you drink some grape ethanol with that nuclear cheese?



To: elmatador who wrote (79187)1/31/2007 9:12:12 PM
From: Madharry  Respond to of 206085
 
you remind me of an incident related in a novel " the correction"

about how all these families in some soviet spinoff country are living in housing made from cinderblocks. the incidence of cancer is unusually high. It subsequently turns out that the cinderblocks are made out of some kind of nuclear waste.