December 18 2007 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 WHO says spread of Bird Flu vet and his other two brothers security forces, in countries where among humans limited subsequently recovered. the pandemic is starting. He says the vaccines also would be used to Doctor Heymann says H5N1 vaccinate people in areas The World Health Organization remains an animal disease. He surrounding a contaminated zone (WHO) says limited human-to- says there have been only to try to contain the virus and stop human transmission of the H5N1 occasional instances where it from spreading. avian influenza virus may have human-to-human infections have occurred in Pakistan, but it says occurred. the threat of further spread Rajeev Bagga & Natalia Deeva appears to have stopped as no The World Health Organization named as "2007 Deaf new infections have been reported reports at least 209 people have Sportsman and Sportswoman for two weeks. died worldwide from the virus, of the Year" most in Indonesia. Scientists fear Assistant Director-General of the the H5N1 or another as yet To encourage the performance of World Health Organization and top unidentified virus could mutate deaf athletes, the International bird flu expert, Doctor David into a form that could easily Committee of Sports for the Deaf Heymann, says a team of WHO spread the disease among (ICSD) recently announced the top experts has completed an humans. 10 finalists for the "2007 WIDEX investigation into an outbreak of Sportsman and Sportswomen bird flu in Pakistan. He says tests Doctor Heymann says there were Award". Rajeev Bagga and Natalia were carried out among a group of three avian flu pandemics in the Deeva were named by the jury as people who became infected with last century and other pandemics "Deaf Sportsman and the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus before then. He says there is a Sportswoman of the Year". in October. clear understanding in the scientific community that there will According to icCoventry from Doctor Heymann says an analysis be another pandemic of influenza. England and the ICSD, Bagga of the information is not yet performed excellently in recent complete, but preliminary results "We do not know what virus will badminton matches, never losing indicate there was human-to- cause that, but we know there are important matches in his human transmission of the virus. avian influenza viruses out there international career, which began He says there could have been a and those viruses could cause a in 1989. He was known as a good common source of the infection. pandemic eventually," he explained. "As long as H5N1 is sportsman; always accepting "The team feels, we have not seen circulating anywhere in the world, referees' judgments, regardless of all their evidence yet, but they feel there is a chance that that virus their accuracy. that this could be an instance of can, either through an adaptive Recently in the 2nd World Deaf close contact of human-to-human mutation or re-assortment, cause a Badminton Championships in transmission in a very pandemic. The problem is nobody Germany, Bagga offered to give up circumscribed area and not can quantify that risk." his silver medal in men's single sustained," he explained. "Just like class after the tragic news of his happened in Indonesia and in Doctor Heymann says countries former Lithuanian teammate Thailand." have to be prepared to take action when a pandemic strikes and that Andirus Jankus' death in a car Nine people, including five the World Health Organization is accident. This touched the hearts brothers, became infected with the stockpiling H5N1 vaccines. of many people, both deaf and H5N1 bird flu virus in a small town able. north of Islamabad. One was a vet He says they would be used to Best Sportswoman, Deeva, involved in culling sick poultry. Two vaccinate essential populations, participated in the "2007 World of his brothers fell ill and died. The such as health workers and Deaf Swimming Championships" in If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Wednesday, December 23 2007 Wikinews Page 2 Taiwan and broke 3 world records slated to appear in a 2008 film. regular worshipper at Mass with in the same day. Also in this his family and in recent months he championship, she won 4 gold Indian Air Force jet catches fire and has been following a programme of medals. crashes after refuelling at Biju formation to prepare for his Patnaik Airport reception into full communion ... Sacha Baron Cohen retires My prayers are with him, his wife Borat alter ego and family at this joyful moment in A jet trainer belonging to the their journey of faith together." Indian Air Force (IAF) caught fire Sacha Baron Cohen, the British during takeoff from Biju Patnaik The Archbishop of Canterbury actor and comedian known for his Airport in Orissa after refuelling Rowan Williams, senior archbishop characters Borat Sagdiyev and Ali and crashed. The pilot escaped of the Church of England said, G, told Britain's Daily Telegraph on unharmed. "Tony Blair has my prayers and Friday that he was officially retiring good wishes as he takes this step The aircraft was one of four flying the aforementioned characters. in his Christian pilgrimage." The reason for this, he said, is from Kalaikunda airbase in West because of the public becoming Bengal to Hyderabad in Andhra Ann Widdecombe, of the too knowledgeable of him and his Pradesh. They had made a Conservative Party, was more alter egos. scheduled stop at Biju Patnaik for cautious. "If you look at Tony refuelling. After this was Blair's voting record in the House "It is hard, and the problem with completed, three of the aircraft of Commons, he's gone against success, although it's fantastic, is successfully took off and Church teaching on more than one that every new person who sees continued, but the fourth caught occasion. On things, for example, the Borat movie is one less person fire and crashed on the runway at like abortion," she said. "My I 'get' with Borat again, so it's a about 11:30 a.m. IST (UTC+5:30). question would be, 'has he kind of self-defeating form, really," changed his mind on that?'" Cohen stated. The aircraft was a Surya Kiran aerobatics demonstration team Tony Blair, who has yet to release Borat Sagdiyev is a Kazakhstani display jet. any official comments, said in a journalist with anti-Semitic and BBC documentary last month: "You The pilot ejected from the aircraft misogynist viewpoints, and Ali G is know you can't have a religious and was uninjured, whilst the a "gangsta" from the "Staines faith and it be an insignificant aircraft was attended by Aircraft ghetto". aspect because it's, it's profound Rescue and Firefighting vehicles. When posing as Borat or Ali G, about you and about you as a Cohen would conduct interviews human being." He also said that he Former UK prime minister Tony Blair with unsuspecting people who had avoided discussing his converts to Catholicism believed that the interviews and religious views out of fear of being the character were genuine. He called "a nutter. would ask questions designed to Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of make the interviewee look foolish the United Kingdom, has left the Oldest surviving US WWI or ignorant. He has showcased this Church of England and joined the veteran dies method in the television program Roman Catholic Church. Da Ali G Show and the faux- Blair, currently the special envoy J. Russell Coffey, the oldest documentary Borat: Cultural for Quartet on the Middle East, has surviving United States veteran of Learnings of America for Make long been attending mass with his First World War (WWI), has died. He Benefit Glorious Nation of wife and four children, who are all was 109. Kazakhstan. Catholic. Cardinal Cormac Murphy- Coffey's death was announced by Cohen generated much O'Connor received Blair into full the Smith-Crates Funeral Home in controversy from the nation of communion with the Catholic North Baltimore, Ohio. According to Kazahkstan, who claimed that Church during Mass at the United States Department of Borat portrayed a negative image Archbishop's House, Westminster, Veterans Affairs (USDVA), he is the of the country's people. He also on Friday. last remaining veteran of the war garnered lawsuits from the Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said, "I in Ohio. He was also one of just unknowing participants of his act. am very glad to welcome Tony three remaining US WWI veterans. Cohen's third persona, a gay Blair into the Catholic Church ... 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