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  Instapundit.com: AVIAN FLU UPDATE: A worrisome report: The spread of avian influenza to at least 29 new countries in the last seven weeks — one of the biggest outbreaks of the virus since it emerged nine years ago — is prompting a sobering reassessment of the strategy that has guided efforts to contain the disease. The speed of its migration, and the

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 [The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] March 26 Flu Update: And perhaps most importantly, the school is wrestling with several difficult questions before they are on our doorstep in an emergency: How would we enforce a policy of "social distancing" should a pandemic influenza break out? At what point would the school close its doors?

 [Zap*Germs] Increasing Focus on Animal Diseases Infecting... : Bernard Vallat, Director-General of the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health, told Bloomberg.com that the problem is that poor nations where dangerous animal diseases exist have little funding available for public health services, veterinary treatment, animal-disease surveillance and to compensate farmers who have to destroy herds and flocks in response to disease outbreaks (such as bird flu) that threaten humans. Vallat said that only about 30 countries that are members of his organization have the resources and systems to respond quickly to outbreaks of disease in animals, leaving 140 that need some support.

[Fluwikie.com] Flu Wiki - Main - Flu Wiki: No one, in any health department or government agency, knows all the things needed to cope with an influenza pandemic. But it is likely someone knows something about some aspect of each of them and if we can pool and share our knowledge we can advance preparation for and the ability to cope with events.

 [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Fortunately, the US Department of Health and Human Services last year funded Sanofi-Pasteur to test a 'mock' H5N1 vaccine, using antigens from an earlier strain. So we don't need to start the approval procedure from scratch for the pandemic strain.

[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Jia -- a professorial-looking 58-year-old who had risen steadily through the ministry's ranks since he joined it in 1979 -- began to talk about a recent research paper he had noticed on avian flu. According to Julie Hall, the WHO's top communicable-disease expert in Beijing and a participant at the meeting, he had a complaint: Months earlier, a team led by American scientists published a paper in an academic journal using China's samples, but without crediting or consulting their Chinese counterparts.

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