Our Avian Flu tracker pinged both India and France over the past two weeks. In the past few days, the commercial poultry industry in both countries is nearly collapsing as other countries ban their birds.
Demand has dropped from 30-50% so far in both places. Even foie gras exports to Japan have stopped--which is the actual dictionary definition for desperate. I mean, in my Webster's, next to the word desperate, is the picture of a Japanese man being denied foie gras.
Listen, I work in public health. From what I've learned there, I do think that a pandemic of some form is possible over the next few years. But now we're just being silly about this whole bird thing. There are much scarier things to worry about, like chikungunya, MRSA, and imitation boils.
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