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Article: How Progress Makes Us Sick: Advances that make life more comfortable can also make it more dangerous.(SARS, Ebola fever, Avian flu)
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- Newsweek
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- May 5, 2003
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Byline: Geoffrey Cowley
SARS may have dominated the headlines last week, but it wasn't the only weird disease on the World Health Organization's radar screen. In central Africa, an outbreak of the dreaded Ebola fever had stretched into its fifth month. In Belgium and the Netherlands, a virulent new strain of avian flu was wiping out entire chicken farms. Dutch farmers recently slaughtered 18 million birds in hopes of stopping the outbreak. Yet the bird flu has spread to several provinces and jumped from poultry to pigs and even people, causing 83 human cases. Most of the infected people have suffered only eye inflammation, but some have developed respiratory ...
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