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Fokus des Monats: Influenza at the "Zoo"
Cartoon making fun of the effects of influenza on various animals at the zoo. The caption beneath the ‘Russian bear’ reads: ‘I gave it to them all.’ Moonshine, 18 January 1890, p. 36.
If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and looking for a new way to terrorise his leading actors he need look no further than the current strain of bird flu circulating in China.
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