After the overblown hype given to a potential H1N1 swine flu pandemic last year — not to mention SARS before it — most people will be reticent to believe the threat the next time a similar outbreak starts to spread. But according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the risks of animal disease [...]
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It was recently reported that a Russian circus bear killed a circus manager, 25-year-old Dmitry Potapov, and critically injured another circus worker who tried to rescue the manager. Though we may not hear about every incident involving a circus animal who turns on its captors, there are plenty of eye-raising instances, such as the one [...]
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Russia,
Tyke the Elephant