 Birds Information - January 9, 2009
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New research finds sea birds are responsible for the transportation of industrial and agricultural pollutants to the Arctic. According to a recent study, the levels of one important class of industrial chemicals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are 30 times higher in Canadian Inuits living north of the Arctic circle, than in residents of temperate Quebec |
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Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter NEW YORK (AHN) - |
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Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - |
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The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over H5N1 bird flu becoming human pandemic. Analysts are calling for immediate mass vaccinations of poultry. The virus is already responsible for killing 54 people in Asia and appears to spread only by close interaction of humans with sick birds or infected poultry |
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Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter The warning follows the deaths of 5,000 migratory birds in the outbreak, in Qinghai province; which is five times greater than China's official estimate |
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