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For the moment, experts say the risk of a mass outbreak remains limited, given that the virus isn't easily spread from human to human.
WSJ: Hong Kong Steps Up Bird-Flu Measures
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Hong Kong officials say they are ready to halt live poultry imports or cull birds if needed, as Shanghai has already done, to prevent a mass outbreak.
WSJ: Hong Kong Steps Up Bird-Flu Measures
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The riots that began in London on August 6th last year, soon spreading to Birmingham and other cities, seemed at the time to be an outbreak of mass lunacy.
ECONOMIST: A year after the riots
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In Sudan, we launched a full court diplomatic press that helped ensure that the South Sudan referendum occurred on time, thereby preventing the outbreak of mass violence that would have accompanied a delay.
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Substitute Rafael volleyed United back into contention with a minute of normal time left - but Arsenal survived six extra minutes and an outbreak of mass anxiety at the Emirates to clinch the three points.
BBC: Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd
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One industry expert said the mass deaths indicated a disease outbreak, possibly on a single farm.
WSJ: Floating, Dead Pigs Repulse Shanghai
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"When a very similar incident occurred in India recently, there was a massive outbreak of protest and mass demonstrations in the streets, " Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven said, AFP news agency reports.
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Meanwhile in north Wales, an Anglesey farmer who avoided a mass cull only to see his livestock slaughtered after a suspected outbreak on his farm, is still awaiting confirmation that foot-and-mouth was present.
BBC: Farmer criticises 'mobile burning'
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On the bleeding edge of a global outbreak would be travel-related companies such as hotels and airlines, restaurants, mass transportation and nonessential retail shopping.
CNN: Pandemic equals economic pain
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Eagerly awaiting large quantities of vaccine for a mass vaccination campaign, Foege and two CDC colleagues were then plunged into dealing with a sudden smallpox outbreak.
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