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 [BeThink - Front Page] Informed Choice? Mandated Vaccines in America: The legislation provides immunity for All Drugs and Vaccines: The language contained in the legislation applies to any drug, vaccine, or biological product that the Secretary of Health and Human Services deems a "covered countermeasure."  This list could include any commercial drug like Tylenol and is not limited in any way to drugs or vaccines meant to treat a pandemic like avian flu.  The far-reaching nature of the bill was misrepresented in Congress and in the media, where the legislation was presented as primarily concerned with preparations to combat the avian flu.

[VaccineEthics.org - The Ethical Challenges of Vaccines] Avian flu: GSK vaccine contracts; NIH studying future pandemic strains: Unrelated to the GSK developments was news from NIH of research that could reduce the 6 month or longer delay between the start of a pandemic and the arrival of a specific vaccine against it. In the journal

 [Corrections Community] Are you Prepared for Pandemic Influenza?: imagine what will happenwhen those firms cannot deliver food in Week Three of a pandemic.  And food will be scarce in a 1918-type, even an 1889-type pandemic.

 [Rural Assistance Center: News] HHS Buys Additional Vaccine as Preparations for Potential ...: Earlier this year, Secretary Leavitt established an HHS-wide Influenza Task Force to coordinate all HHS activities affecting the public health preparedness for seasonal influenza outbreaks and an influenza pandemic. Long-term objectives include an effective and efficient global surveillance network for outbreaks of influenza-like illness in humans and animals, and interoperable local, state, and federal government response plans for influenza outbreaks within the United States.

[Vaccines for Development] Fighting Avian Flu Over There So We Don't Have To Fight It Over Here: National strategy for pandemic influenza and the HHS pandemic influenza plan: thoughts and comments from the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, November 7, 2005. http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/avianflu/comments-fluplan.pdf ...

[First Reading - Hawaii LRB Library] Pandemic flu effects - from macro to you: A Potential Influenza Pandemic: Possible Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Issues (pdf, 312KB, 50p.), Dec. 8, 2005 HHS has created a pandemic-avian flu website which includes planning and response information for each state.

 [Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog] Looking For A Catalyst: Leavitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, convened a Leadership Forum on pandemic preparedness, which brought together influential leaders from the business, faith-based, civic and health care sectors to discuss how to convince and help Americans prepare for a possible influenza pandemic. The Department hosted this short-term blog to expand the conversation leading up to and following the Leadership Forum.

[The Flu News Blog] US Orders More Glaxo Bird Flu Vaccine: Forbes - British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline said the Department of Health and Human Services placed another order to buy bulk avian flu vaccine to fill the national stockpile in the event of a pandemic. The company said HHS asked for 22.5 million doses of

[Medical News and Health News Blog] Veto-Proof Majority Not Expected For House Labor-HHS-Education Bill: The bill also includes $1.1 billion to prepare for a potential avian flu pandemic. Earmarks in the bill total $565 million ”” a 50% reduction from earmarked funds in the appropriations bill that was approved two years ago (Kaiser Daily .

 [Open Access News] More on OA to avian flu data: In the course of adapting its licenses to the legal systems of several dozen nations, the Creative Commons has over the past few years attracted some formidable talent -- hundreds of free and open source software programmers, copyright and patent reform activists, bloggers, citizen journalists, indie musicians, Wikipedians, free culture champions, advocates of open access scholarly publishing, scientists seeking to build new knowledge commons, among many others. The CC realized that these folks needed to learn from each other, and collaborate with each other....

 [Disaster News Network Weblog - Disaster Research] Flu preparedness resources: Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) has developed several audience specific brochures that will help guide you and your organization through the pandemic planning process. One that is of particular interest to the NYDISnet readership is entitled, “It’s Not Flu As Usual: What Faith Based and Community Organizations Need to Know about Pandemic Flu.”

[The Flu News Blog] US Now Has 26 Million Avian Flu Antiviral Treatments to Fight: Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - Mar 21, 2006 (CIDRAP News) Veterinarians could not give poultry the same antiviral drugs being stockpiled the world over to battle a human influenza pandemic, under a rule proposed yesterday by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is

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