Published 2/13/2009
by AndreaManitsas
at LIME.com - Healthy Living with a Twist
But bird flu, it seems, is back. This year, China has already recorded
eight human cases of the disease. Last month five people died in
locations as far removed from each other as Beijing in the north,
Xinjiang in the west, Guangxi in the south, Hunan in the center and
Shandong in the east — and one of the highest tallies of bird flu
deaths China has ever recorded in a month.
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