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Monday, April 10, 2006

suggestion: to avoid bird flu, keep cats indoors

In areas where bird flu is found in wild birds and/or poultry, people are urged to keep their cats indoors. Some scientists think that there is a feline potential to spreading the disease. Cats have been known to become infected with the H5N1 virus. Cats that may have been exposed to the virus should be quarantined.

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: Name: Mike Bertelsen; Location: Aledo, IL, United States

The world's vast distances have been spanned by humankind's inventive genius. The world is smaller because we are bound in one continuous bundle of life. What happens in any country on Earth may affect the happiness and peace of the entire world. What is merely local and provincial in our thinking must yield to a global understanding and a world view. The world is lighted from within and our common task should be pledged to keep it aflame with humankind's larger measure of liberty, faith, and peace. With technological advances to explore, we need to get more acquainted with the old so we may be able to better understand the new.

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