PETA Asia-Pacific's Biohazard Team to the Rescue

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Published May 22, 2009 at 1:34 p.m.

The swine flu epidemic has hit Asia—and so has PETA Asia-Pacific's intrepid team of biohazard-suited protesters. They gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila to point out the fact that factory farms are breeding grounds for deadly diseases such as ...

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Asia Reports First Case of Swine Flu in Hong Kong

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Published May 1, 2009 at 10:29 a.m.
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The arrival of a Mexican traveler with the flu at a Hong Kong hospital re-awoke memories of the SARS outbreak ...

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SWINE FLU GOES GLOBAL

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Published April 28, 2009 at 10:08 a.m.

MEXICO CITY -- The swine flu epidemic crossed new borders Tuesday with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, as world health officials said they suspect American patients may have transmitted the virus to others ...

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H1N1 Swine Flu Information

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Published May 1, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

Information on the H1N1 swine flu virus, including prevention and treatment.

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Swine flu's next move impossible to predict

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Published April 27, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Scientists have yet to figure out how this strain of the influenza virus spreads, or what makes it lethal. It could continue spreading or fizzle out, they say ... Sometime in the last few years, as the world's attention was focused on the bird flu that killed more than 250 people in Asia, another bird flu strain infected pigs ...

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