2007 - Chinese year of the Chicken - Bird Flu Pandemic devastates parts
of Asia

2008 - Chinese year of the Horse - Equine Influenza decimates
Australian racing

2009 - Chinese year of the Pig - Swine Flu Pandemic kills hundreds of
pigs/humans around the globe.

It gets worse........

Next year......

2010 - Chinese year of the Cock - what could possibly go wrong?
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of
Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter
of the gods.

-- Albert Einstein