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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

First Bird-Flu Death Confirmed in Iraq

Is there to be no abatement of the terrible suffering of Iraqis? As if masses of their people murdered (and untold numbers maimed, with generations condemned to the crippling effects of depleted uranium) and their country devastated by the U.S.-led war and occupation is not horrible enough, now bird-flu has arrived to further afflict these suffering people. An Iraqi official said on Monday that a girl who died on January 17 was killed by the avian flu. This is the first confirmed bird-flu death in Iraq, and health officials are now investigating the death of the girl's uncle, who died January 27, lived in the same house and had similar symptoms.

Read about it here.

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