| Somewhere in Southeast Asia (or Africa,
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| | son comes to feed the pig. Heavily
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| the Mid-East, Europe etc) . . .
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| | infected with the contagious form of
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| A hen clucks and shifts around in her
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| | lethal bird flu, the pig snorts and
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| perch. She sniffs and sneezes.
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| | sneezes onto the boy.
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| Inside the lining of her respiratory
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| | Who later rough houses with his friends
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| tract and lungs, millions of influenza
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| | at school, including Pim.
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| viruses -- commonly called A/H5N1 or bird
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| | Pim takes the virus home to his father,
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| flu -- are infecting her cells and
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| | Yu.
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| forcing them to replicate millions more
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| | The next day, Yu takes a bus to Bangkok
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| of the virus.
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| | to buy some supplies and equipment for
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| This is the same virus that's deadly to
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| | his farm. He spends much of the day
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| chickens. People can catch it through
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| | talking over his order with Mr. Chen, the
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| close contact with chickens, but they can
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| | owner of The White Lotus Farm Store.
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| not spread it to other people.
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| | Mr. Chen goes home that evening and
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| The hen excretes, her white waste
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| | spends a lot of intimate time with his
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| material -- full of A/H5N1 -- falling to
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| | wife, who is leaving tomorrow to spend
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| the floor below, mixing in with the dirt
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| | two weeks visiting relatives in Chicago,
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| and other chicken manure.
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| | U.S.A.
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| The pig below the hen also feels ill.
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| | When Mrs. Chen boards the early morning
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| Several days ago, the farmer who owns
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| | Thai Airways flight to Los Angeles, she
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| them both sneezed on the pig while
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| | is not aware that 145 kilometers away
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| feeding her. Now the pig has a case of
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| | from her, a chicken and a pig are dead .
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| ordinary human flu. It's not
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| | . . and a farmer's son and his friend are
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| life-threatening to the farmer or the
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| | too sick to go to school.
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| pig, but it is highly contagious.
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| | Neither do the other 200 passengers who
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| Hungry despite her flu, the pig gobbles
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| | spend 11 hours breathing the same air as
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| down some chicken manure, including some
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| | Mrs. Chen.
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| which contains A/H5N1.
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| | The farmers have taken their children to
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| A/H5N1 works its way through the pig's
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| | the nearby clinic, which has taken throat
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| body to the pig's respiratory system.
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| | samples and sent them to the United
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| There, it starts drilling into the pig's
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| | Nations World Health Organization
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| cells with its spikes of hemagluttin.
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| | laboratories to be tested.
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| There it meets up with a virus of
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| | The doctor is worried, because the other
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| ordinary flu infecting the pig -- just
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| | family members are also feeling poorly
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| like two bank robbers who enter the same
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| | and so many of their farm animals have
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| vault from two sides.
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| | died. He's feeling weak himself.
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| It's not true love, but it's not bad.
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| | After landing at Los Angeles
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| They combine genetic material and soon
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| | International Airport, some of Mrs.
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| have an offspring who's the best of both
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| | Chen's fellow passengers go into Los
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| of them.
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| | Angeles. Some of them go on to flights to
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| As contagious between human beings as
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| | Canada, Latin America and New York City.
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| ordinary flu.
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| | A few plan to continue on to London and
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| As lethal to human beings as A/H5N1.
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| | Paris. Mrs. Chen finds her gate to a
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| Soon Junior uses the neurasminadse
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| | flight to Chicago.
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| protein spikes on his surface to cut
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| | A few days later, WHO and CDC workers fly
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| himself loose from the pig's cell he
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| | to the small farming village and the
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| calls home, and makes his way out into
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| | government imposes a travel ban on the
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| the world . . . to infect his very own
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| | entire province.
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| cell.
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| | In Chicago, Mrs. Chen has taken to her
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| He takes over its genetic material and
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| | bed and her relatives are sneezing on
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| soon has instructed the cell to replicate
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| | their jobs . . .
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| millions more of himself.
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| | Bird flu could become highly contagious
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| Soon those viruses are spreading through
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| | in several ways. Here is one plausible
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| the pig.
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| | scenario.
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| Several days later, the farmer's oldest
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