Bangladesh culls 100,000 fowl to halt bird flu

Bangladesh culls 100,000 fowl to halt bird flu

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DHAKA, April 3 (Reuters) - Bangladesh authorities have culled more than 100,000 chickens at farms over the last one week over suspected bird flu outbreaks, officials said on Thursday, although the disease had begun subsiding across the country.

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I hope the virus never mutates, but its really matter of when not if. When that happens say goodbye to cheap chicken and people thinking they'll be able to raise chickens at home, well goodbye to them too. They'll be culled in raids like the ones that have been happening in South Asia.

We might be saying goodbye to our dogs too if Korean scientists are right.

"Dogs catch flu directly from birds, study finds"
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