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Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked “total destruction” unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. The top U.S. climate diplomat Todd Stern blamed a “17-year divide” between rich and poor nations for slow progress at the U.N. talks meant to agree a global climate deal in Copenhagen in December, and slammed “debating society” pranks. Keeping up pressure in Barcelona, the final preparatory session for the December meeting, the poor said that even the most ambitious offers by the European Union, tougher than most nations, were far too weak for a new U.N. climate pact. “The result of that is to condemn developing countries to a total destruction of their livelihoods, their economies. Their land, their forests will all be destroyed. And for what purpose?” said Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping of Sudan, chair of the Group of 77 and China, representing poor nations. “Anything south of 40 (percent) means t
By Christopher Doering and Charles Abbott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. hog has tested positive for the pandemic H1N1 flu virus for the first time ever, the Agriculture Department confirmed on Monday. USDA said the virus was found in a hog exhibited at the Minnesota State Fair where four teenagers became sick. The discovery does not suggest infection of commercial pig herds raised for slaughter, USDA said. So far, it said, preliminary positives have been found in three hogs with tests confirming pandemic H1N1 on one of them. Health officials say the virus, originally known as swine flu, is not linked to meat products. “People cannot get this flu from eating pork or pork products. Pork is safe to eat,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement. Swine flu, common in hogs around the world, causes fever and coughing in pigs, which usually recover from the illness. The virus has been found in several herds in Canada. Sources:
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