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[A TIME'S MEMORY] Abd-al-Salam Mahjub, minister of local development, declared that the Supreme Committee for Bird- flu Combating will hold an abrupt meeting within hours to discuss the bird- flu unpleasant situation, adding that new measures will be taken to restrain the disease.
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[The Becker-Posner Blog] The Becker-Posner Blog: The Economics of the Flu Epidemic--Posner: If, following the Lancet estimate discussed by Becker, we guess that a repetition of the 1918-1919 pandemic would inflict a total cost worldwide of $20 trillion (this estimate excludes the narrowly economic costs, but they would probably be lower, in part because thinning out populations can raise per capita incomes, especially if the very young and the very old, and poor people in overpopulated countries, are the principal victims), and if we indulge a further guess that there is a 1 percent annual probability of such an event, the annual expected cost would be $600 billion. Of course this would not imply that the world should spend $600 billion a year on trying to prevent, or reduce the costs of, a lethal flu epidemic.
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[rd.com Blog: Living Healthy] Swine flu: An expert gives his perspective | Living Healthy Blog ...: With the World Health Organization raising its global pandemic alert level, and its Director-General advising all countries to immediately activate pandemic preparedness plans, it's hard to judge exactly how concerned people should be about swine flu”or what actions we should take. Yesterday, I talked to Brian Currie, MD, MPH, medical director of research at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
[NationMultimedia.com - Business] Asean swine-flu meet might be held here - Nationmultimedia.com: The government also ordered all hospitals in Bangkok to put on standby 50 airborne-infection isolation rooms to provide emergency medical service for anyone who might be infected with the Mexican flu, even though no cases of infection have yet been reported in Thailand.
[SignOnSanDiego.com: News] Viruses versus hosts: a battle as old as time: Incubation time varies, said Debi Nayak, a molecular biologist specializing in flu research at the University of California Los Angeles. “It depends on things like how much virus infects you, whether it's one particle infecting one cell or a million particles infecting a million cells,” she said.
[eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News] International Tourism Demand Further Deteriorates World tourism in ...: The organization has formed a dedicated Risk and Crisis Management Section (RCM), established influenza contacts in every member state, launched regional simulation exercises, created the Tourism Emergency Response Network (TERN) with some 20 peak industry organizations, and launched sos.travel as a portal for emergency information for the industry and travelers. In addition, UNWTO is continuing to issue guidance material.
[Health] Change of plans (4:30) | PRI's The World: And then when the swine flu stuff started coming around, I was kind of like, “Well, I dont know.” And then the CDC changed their stance Monday night and suggested against unnecessary travel, and that was the last straw in a string of things -- and we decided to change plans from Mexico to Jamaica at that point.
[DrGily.Com] Bird Avian Flu Prevention Treatment Tamiflu News: Infected humans do not transmit the bird flu virus to other humans, although there are a few, isolated reports of human-to-human transmission. As explained above, the fear is that a new subtype of influenza virus might develop in a host coinfected with both the bird and another strain of flu virus, and this new strain might be easily transmissible among humans.
[Comments for noworldsystem.com] Police taser newlyweds during wedding reception « noworldsystem.com: According to a news release from the Chikaming Township (Mich.) Police Department, Officer Jeff Enders responded Saturday to the Burnison Art Gallery in Lakeside, Mich., after gallery owner Judi Burnison asked for assistance with unruly guests at the Somoras wedding reception.
[Climate Change Blog] Climate Change Blog: Apocalyptic Climate and Global Ecological ...: 26 March 2008 Ducks, rice [fields, paddies = flooded by water! Farmers on work drink the water from rice paddies!] and people and not chickens have emerged as the most significant factors in the spread of avian influenza in Thailand and Viet Nam, according to a study carried out by a group of experts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and associated research centres.
[Wet Moments] SARS and Bird Flu: There was even that dead bird found in Scotland, I hear that practically emptied the town when the news got out that a possible flu bird was found (Turned out to be a non-human strain of bird flu, so unless the public were to rub their face in the bird, and sleep with it in their arms for a few weeks, it wouldn't have done anything).
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