I'm starting to get fearful of bird flu, as well. Not that I eat much poultry, but sounds very dangerous, anyway.
"We cannot rule out the possibility of the bird flu virus spreading to Armenia," Grigor Bagyan said.Is there a tinfoil hat for bird flu? No?
He said imports of poultry products have been banned from Azerbaijan, Hungary, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Nigeria.
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has claimed dozens of human lives since it first appeared in Asia in 2003. It has since spread worldwide, and scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, sparking a global pandemic.
Source: RIA Novosti
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