Airport security stepped up as flu bug infects 1,600  worldwide

By Margaret Wong in Hong Kong
31 March 2003

   Hong Kong health officials reported yesterday
   that 60 more people had fallen ill with a
   deadly flu-like disease, more than half of
   them in one apartment complex, pushing the
   number of infections worldwide past 1,600.

   The World Health Organisation (WHO) has 
   expressed concern at the increasing spread of
   the disease in Hong Kong, where new Sars cases
   have picked up pace in the past few days. Hong
   Kong has been hit the hardest after mainland
   China, which has reported some 800 cases and 34
   deaths. The WHO says the disease is spreading
   via international travellers and nations across
   Asia are fighting to contain it.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=392452

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   "Perceptions" note:

   We saw the W.H.O were reading our page(s) some
   year or so ago 

   Ask Google for "week's curious readers" 

   but can't believe we were the first to warn 
   against the likeliest source and cause of the
   next killer disease to come from abuse of animals
   (birds in this case).

   Ask Google for "perceptions" + "retribution"

   Flu (yes it seems it's a FLU, despite media 
   attempts to calm fears by calling it SARS) would
   be only a slight infection of occasional farmers
   / hunters - if we didn't allow the huge crowding
   together of birds (along with `poor humans') in
   factory-farming, most concentrated in the Orient.

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