Bird Flu Vaccine Approved

American Voices

June 11, 2007 | ISSUE 43•24

The first vaccine for avian flu was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration. What do you think?

Just as the HPV vaccine only encourages sexual intercourse, this vaccine will foster and normalize interaction with birds.

Brad Emery
Systems Analyst
Thank God, because I've just been tearing through the beef jerky and bottled water in my personal pandemic stockpile

Debbie Hirsch
Embroiderer
I thought bird flu was last year. Did that never happen? I am pretty sure it already happened.

John Weiss
Window Washer

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A study published in Archives Of General Psychiatry found that middle-aged men who smoked had diminished cognitive skills, the equivalent of having aged an additional 10 years.
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