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Clipping It's Wings; Scientists hope a new technique will help them develop a vaccine against the bird flu virus before it leaps to humans.(Cover Story)
Byline: Fred Guterl, With Michael Hastings, Jonathan Adams, Alexandra A. Seno, Scott Worden and Sarah Schafer
The life of a poultry farmer in the sleepy Cambodian village of Phuong Peay is not exactly eventful, but the job does have its worries. Like many of his fellow farmers, 50-year-old Chheng Kim Seang's biggest concern is usually the health of his birds. His livelihood depends on it. So when he walked into the ramshackle wooden shed that houses his chickens one morning late last December and found a few dead chicks, and when a week later perfectly healthy roosters and hens also starting dying, he assumed the worst: cholera. To cut his losses, he injected the ...
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