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  Grassroots Science (Alaska): The implications of an influenza pandemic for businesses are far-reaching and potentially catastrophic. Traditional business risk mitigation, security and disaster response plans for naturally occurring and terrorism-related events are insufficient in preparing a business for pandemic influenza. (via Cosmos)

Out of Ambit: News, current events, politics Back Seat Drivers Best of the Blogs Consumerist Crooked Timber DC Media Girl disinformation H5N1: Avian Flu blog How Appealing IsThatLegal? Nerdlaw.org Opinions You Should Have Sisu snarky malarkey The Memory Hole Thudfactor: Thudfactor (via Cosmos)

  Avian Flu Diary: No way I can mention them all, but the Revere’s at Effect Measure, SophiaZoe, Monotreme, Tina at The Next Pandemic, Orange at The Coming Influenza Pandemic? and of course Crofsblog are all sterling examples of what the blogging community should be. (via Cosmos)

  Foot's Forecast : The final word in weather: "SYNOPSIS: Repeated surges of cold air from Canada will overspread most of the lower 48 states east of the Continental Divide throughout most of the Assessment Period. With little available moisture in these Arctic/Polar air masses to work with, storm activity will diminish across the country during most of this period, although there is a chance for a significant wintry mix event across the interior of the Gulf and South Atlantic states sometime between Jan 31 and Feb 3, with a risk of heavy snow along the Atlantic Seaboard from Virginia to New England as this system turns northeastward. (via Cosmos)

Culetti nudi: More than 130 ducks died of the virus in Soc Trang province in recent days, government-run television reported, hours after officials said over 800 ducks had also died of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Tra Vinh province. (via Cosmos)

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.

[Drbobgleeson.typepad.com] Bird flu: The news reports indicate that medical science is hard at work trying to identify vaccines or adjuvants to vaccines or viral blockers to prevent the spread of H5N1. All of these reports are good news, with two cautions: first, medical science is early in the process””success in a mouse model is different than success in a whole human population””and second, success in human trials is still far from large scale manufacturing and distribution.

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