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  • Flu vaccines have to be very closely tailored to the strain, and there's no way to know how any of the known strains -- swine flu, avain flu, whatever -- will mutate or when the mutation will make them go rogue.

    Swine flu in New York City. Ann Althouse 2009

  • That is such a personal question, what with all the avain simians run aerial amok ... but, now that you mention it, yes there are monkeys flying out of your butt!

    In Contrast With Core Hillary Message, Carville Says He Thinks Obama "Will" Win General Election 2009

  • Such as; joining forces with their avain friends, releasing poop bombs on command, and of course the fairies.

    The Sisters Squirrel « Fairegarden 2008

  • They will do the same with the first instance of a dead chicken found in some coop in Amarillo being suspected of having succumbed to avain flu.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The avain strains have been particularly potent in Asia so far, with high death rates of patients treated in 'hospitals and clinics with well-trained and interested staffs.'

    Flu shots? 2004

  • They will do the same with the first instance of a dead chicken found in some coop in Amarillo being suspected of having succumbed to avain flu.

    From On High 2006

  • ~ Per 1, anA straved to her hair avain and she willed it to return and

    Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991

  • Celtic, appearing in Welsh (very frequently) as _afon_, in Manx as _aon_, and in Gaelic as _abhuinn_ (pronounced _avain_), and is radically identical with the Sanskrit _ap_, water, and the Lat. _aqua_ and _amnis_.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • MacMcClelland Good #Haiti news from MSF's @AvrilBenoit: in our experience, predictions & popular belief in post-disaster epidemics are generally unfounded brandonemerson the swine flu epidemic seems to have gone the way of the last few supposed epidemics (SARS, avain flu). next epidemic: crying-wolf flu

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • A new feathered maniraptorian dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avain origin.

    PALAEOBLOG 2009

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