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No word of anyone getting sick from the pigs in the Philippines with ebola reston virus...but now reports from the south say a lot of hogs down there are dying of symptoms that sound like hemorrhagic fever...

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There is a human outbreak of ebola virus in the DRC Congo...Angola has closed it's borders, but now there are reports that two Zimbabwean soldiers helping Kabila's government have died of this disease....
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The big scandal about the seizure related death of Travolta's son is that he was probably autistic with seizures, but Scientology forbids seizure medicine.
However, when his wife insists the son's Kawasaki disease was from chemicals in rug cleaners, I thought she was nuts...but there is indeed a link.
Maybe that's why I have only seen one case in 40 years: Poor people don't clean their rugs...
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and the cute story of the day:

Sheepdogs are being used to protect endangered penguins from being attacked by dingos and foxes in Australia.
Picture: DAMIAN WHITE