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03-24-2006, 12:55 AM #1
Mexico denies bird flu on the border with US
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...o-birdflu.html
Mexican official denies rumor of bird flu on border with U.S.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
11:27 a.m. March 23, 2006
MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Agriculture Department on Thursday denied rumors that a case of high-pathogenic avian flu had been found in a town on the U.S. border.
“Mexico is totally free of bird flu,” Jose Angel del Valle, the department's head of animal health, said in a telephone interview.
A supposed news item posted on the Web site radiolivre.org on Wednesday said there had been a case of H5 bird flu in a duck found dead in the town of Nogales, on the U.S. border.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said earlier Thursday that the report was a complete hoax, but the rumor affected Chicago Board of Trade grain prices overnight Wednesday.
Last year, Mexico reported several isolated cases of low-pathogenic bird flu, which doesn't affect humans. The most recent case was in the southern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border.<div>"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
- Clarence Darrow</div>
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