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February 24, 2005

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Move over Atkins, it's the Fumier diet.
Pepsi might be confused about the difference between Hong Kong and Japan, but SF is here to help.
(13:30) A quiz for bloggers and Jim's answers.
(14:37) Bird flu is the next candidate for "exotic disease of the year". Vaccines are already being tested and stockpiled, at considerable expense. Which brings us to these three interesting posts on the topic by "Reconbinomics": the real case fatality rate of H5N1 avian influenza; false negatives in bird flu patients in Vietnam; and best of all human transmission of bird flu media myth. I'd prefer panic. That'd give us another SARS-like dip in the stock and property markets to be taken advantage of.
(16:47) Joe Jones is back blogging from Japan.
(18:17) Not a landslide. 136 people in Indonesia have died in a garbageslide. A shanty town built on the edge of a massive rubbish tip and after strong rains the rubbish slides over the houses. A complete tragedy.

posted by Simon on 02.24.05 at 06:23 PM in the Daily linklets category.

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Comments:

Several years back over 150 people (mostly kids) died in a similar situation. Except that the children were there to scavange for scraps to eat, sell, etc.

That too was tragic. It seems that So. Asia markets have never really recovered since '98.

posted by: michele on 02.25.05 at 02:37 AM [permalink]

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