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PRC State Media: Keep Eating Chicken! Help Revive The Poultry Industry! Restrain Your Anxiety!
BEIJING — Chinese state media Monday urged people to keep eating chicken and help revive the poultry industry, which lost 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in the week after the H7N9 bird flu virus began infecting humans.
A total of 63 people have been confirmed as infected and 14 have died in the two weeks since Chinese authorities said they found the strain in humans for the first time.
"The public should somewhat restrain their anxieties to avoid this becoming a disaster for the whole poultry industry," the Global Times said in an editorial, adding that not eating poultry was "unfair to farmers".
It called the avoidance of such foods "excessive anxiety" and urged people instead to "demonstrate a collective spirit beyond individualism".
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hD7ux35kR-SBNKFIePowjcZmg0xQ
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Earworm! Haha...
... chicken or pork (it's the nearest thing to fish that you'll get in the rivers there) ...
