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Record businesses growth, avian bird flu focus of Council of State meeting

New business growth in North Carolina shows no signs of stopping according to Secretary of State Elaine Marshall. “Nothing has slowed down. In fact, it has accelerated,” she said at the Tuesday, April 4 Council of State meeting. A new record was set for the first quarter of this year with nearly 47,000 new businesses...

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Strain of bird flu detected in NC

Vigilance but not panic is being advised for poultry farms and others with poultry in their backyards after a strain of Avian Flu was recently detected in 65 hunter-harvested wild waterfowl at three sites in North Carolina and other nearby states as of Feb. 4. It’s also the reason why the North Carolina Zoo closed...

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Friday Interview: The Next Pandemic

RALEIGH — In today’s Friday interview the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai discusses bird flu and a possible world pandemic with Bennet Waters, clinical assistant professor and deputy director for executive programs in the UNC School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Administration. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).

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