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    Bird flu spreading to Europe


    What is avian influenza (bird flu)?

    Bird flu is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These flu viruses occur naturally among birds. Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from them. However, bird flu is very contagious among birds and can make some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very sick and kill them.

    Une traduction : La grippe aviaire est une maladie infectieuse causée par les virus des grippes ( = celle des oiseaux). Ces virus grippaux se manifestent - de par leur nature - parmi les oiseaux. Les oiseaux 'sauvages' transportent, à l'échelle du monde, ces virus dans leurs intestins, mais n'en tombent pas malades pour autant, habituellement. Cependant, la grippe aviaire est très contagieuse chez les oiseaux et peut rendre très malades et tuer aussi bien les oiseaux, que les poulets, les canards et les dindes.

     

    (HMMM... Could be bird flu...)

     





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    1. ' Bird flu is spreading west and may reach Western Europe.
    2. There are fears scientists of a global pandemic.
    3. The influenza started in Asia two years ago,
    4. where it 61 people.
    5. birds have since carried the virus west to Siberia.
    6. In Russia, it killed 11,000 birds and destroyed 127,000 others.
    7. Russia has European nations that
    8. the deadly H5N1 is on its way.
    9. Holland has all chicken farmers to keep
    10. their birds indoors as a measure.
    11. ' This isn't a problem of a state ... it is a problem of all mankind that must be studied
    12. together and that needs consolidated well-coordinated activity.'








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