Korean dish 'may cure bird flu' (BBC)

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By David Chazan
BBC News


South Korea's spicy fermented cabbage dish, kimchi, could help to cure bird flu, according to researchers.

Scientists at Seoul National University say they fed an extract of kimchi to 13 infected chickens - and a week later 11 of them had started recovering.

The researchers said the results were far from scientifically proven and if kimchi did have the effects they observed, it was unclear why.

South Koreans are reported to be eating more kimchi as a result of the study.

"I'm eating kimchi these days because I've heard in the media that it helps prevent bird flu infections," one man said.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4347443.stm

[tabatha]

1. It is a fermented dish.

[Orrex]

2. I hear that it's high in Vitamin D

[uppityperson]

4. Wonder if any of the birds were vaccinated

[uppityperson]

3. And those who were not fed kimchi? How many of them started recovering in a week?

Edited to add that I really like good kimchi. Good stuff. Yummy. Seriously. I found out about kimchi when living in Fairbanks, AK and living in WA now I get it at Uwajimaya's in Seattle

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[Cha]

6. I knew it was going to be Kimchi..

Something about that fementation.

I started eating miso again not too long ago because I thought I might have gotten some fluorescent lighting dust absorbed into my back in a freak accident at work. I remembered reading that the Japanese in Nagasaki who ate miso didn't have the cancer that others had when they got bombed in World War ll.

[azurnoir]

7. LOL read the title and thought

its gotta be Kimchi! its good stuff, for those unfamiliar with it imagine course cut sauerkraut loaded with hot red peppers

[d_r]

8. my grandfather always said

if you eat the kimchi you can start recovering after a week; if you don't it, you won't start recovering until after seven days.

[Orrex]

9. Sadily, a multi-billion-dollar (and largely unregulated) industry is based on that same principle.

Welcome to DU, by the way!

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