Suspected bird flu victim in Semarang, Indonesia

The Central Java Health Agency says it has received a report of a suspected case of bird flu in the province.

The 54-year-old man, a resident of the Sambiroto subdistrict, was currently under treatment at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Semarang, officials said.

“The man has been suffering from a cough, a cold and a high fever, with temperature above 38 degrees Celsius,” Rorry Hartono, the agency's disease control and environmental health division chief, said on Wednesday.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/12/19/suspected-bird-flu-victim-semarang.html

Body Of Endangered Whale Washes Up On Beach, Northeast Florida

One of the most endangered whales in the world has washed up dead on a beach in northeast Florida.

Officials said the 26ft-long (8 metre) North Atlantic right whale washed up overnight on a beach near Palm Coast.

Federal marine spokesman Barb Zoodsma says biologists are not sure what caused the death.

http://news.sky.com/story/1027899/body-of-endangered-whale-washes-up-on-beach

Bamboo rats caged and ready to cook in China