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2007-08-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Bird flu at German poultry farm, 160,000 culled

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-26 11:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Nobody gets quite as authoritarians as Germans during a health alert. I spoke with a German physician who still remembered a trichinosis outbreak in the 1950s, thirty-five years before, and how overnight, the city of Stuttgart was much as it had been during the early 1940s.

Except in this case, the 3am knock on the door came to anyone who sold meat. Even canned meat. And they would inspect their store from then through the entire next day. Every square inch, and in the methodical Germanic manner.

It turned out that someone had shot a bear, and shared the meat with their friends. Bears are also carriers of trichinosis.

(N.B.: And you *don't even* want to know what their punishment is for adulterating beer. Some things are just too horrible to know.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-26 11:35|| 2007-08-26 11:35|| Front Page Top

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