New Olympic Event: The Plague Pass

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Which country is prominent among the first to report human-to-human transmission of H5N1?

Human to Human Transmission of H5N1 Confirmed in China

Chinese health officials have confirmed that a father caught H5N1 bird flu from his son last December, according to a report released Tuesday. This marks at least the fourth instance in which many authorities now believe there was limited inter-family H5N1 transmission.

Which country, conveniently enough, just happens to have developed a vaccine for H5N1?

China approves its first human H5N1 vaccine

China's State Food and Drug Administration approved production of the country's first human vaccine for the H5N1 virus last week (2 April).

Which country is hosting the next Olympics, an event expected to draw an audience from all over the world, who will gather in public places, jam up against each other, and then go home?

China, Air Travel and the 2008 Olympics

One of the biggest questions surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is whether China’s fast-growing but seriously stretched commercial aviation system will be up to the task of handling the 2 million visitors expected to pack the Chinese capital for the Games this summer.

Er...spread, did you say?

Olympic spirit to be spread through North America via San Francisco


Probably a good idea:

Chicken off menu at Beijing Olympics


Ground Zero articles of interest:



Human to Human Transmisson of H5N1 in China is now fulfilling all prophecies of Zombie War (Clyde's MySpace blog)

Anti-war? Um, kinda...NOT

Obamafluff just suggested that we not end the war, just re-situate it:

Obama might send troops into Pakistan

"He confuses our mission," Obama said, then he spread responsibility to lawmakers like Clinton who voted for the invasion. "By refusing to end the war in Iraq, President Bush is giving the terrorists what they really want, and what the Congress voted to give them in 2002: a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences."

THAT'S where the terrorists are! Darn it, we were shooting up the wrong mall. The terrorists are all in Pakistan. With the WMDs. And Ambrose Bierce.

You're not anti-war, you're just anti-Bush. You still want to fight a war on...I'm never sure which it is: "terror", an emotion, or "terrorism", a tactic. Certainly not a country, right? Because that would really be a war, With, like, rules. Wouldn't want that.

Does anyone remember when Kerry wanted to change the venue to Saudi Arabia?

Does anyone...remember Kerry?