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Healthy Living Blog |
Biz-Blogs.com is the home of a network of business-oriented blog sites sponsored by Small-Business-Online.com and the SBO-Linknet.com network of websites. These blogs deal with marketing, internet marketing, website building and design, and an ever growing number of specialty areas such as real estate, golf, trade show displays, online video and audio tools, and eventually, many more. Eventually we expect there to be a growing number of blog sites, each dedicated to a special, narrowly defined business niche. Brothers Play Catch with Chicken Heads, Die of Bird FluJan 8, 2006 - Linknet Health News Brothers Play Catch with Chicken Heads, Die of Bird Flu Linknet Health News, January 8, 2006Two teenage brothers died of bird flu in eastern Turkey last week, according to the World Health Organization. They confirmed the boys had been infected with the H5N1 strain. This is the first time the virus has killed humans outside of East Asia. Several other people were also under observation in Turkish hospitals, suspected of having the disease, and the EU is on high alert. Health officials fear the virus may mutate and become contagious from human to human and begin the "pandemic" everyone is predicting. In this case, the boys had been playing catch with the heads of dead chickens, but other children in the family were also hospitalized. One subsequently died and another is recovering. Health officals are investigating. Meanwhile, more than 2 million children died from malaria last year. Most of them were in Africa. Healthy Living Blog
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