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[TurcoPundit] Foreign Press Review - April 07 2006: H16 President Bush specifically authorized Vice Presidential aide Scooter Libby to disclose information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller in July 2003, effectively declassifying the information, according to a government filing (pdf) in the Libby prosecution yesterday.
[LoopyLibrarian] Where's the ruler?: MERSEY Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust (MRAS) is celebrating a double success this week - response times have improved and more people in cardiac arrest have been resuscitated.
[Ltc.smm.org] A killer race | Science Buzz: Today the mortality rate for a bacterial pneumonia following influenza is still roughly 7 percent, and in some parts of the United States, 35 percent of pneumococcal infections are resistant to the antibiotic of choice. When staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that has become particularly troubling in hospitals because of its resistance to antibiotics, is the secondary invader, the death rate-today-rises to as high as 42 percent.
[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.
[Travel.guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited Travel | Special reports | Scientists claim ...: Gamma-interferon, originally developed for a range of flu-causing viruses, has been remade for the strain of H5N1 bird flu virus found in Vietnam, but could be modified to treat the strain found in Turkey and other parts of Asia, institute director Oleg Kiselyov told a Moscow news conference.
[Fistfulofeuros.net] A Fistful of Euros: Turkey And Avian Flu: Basically I had it right on Monday: unfortunately poor Muhammet Ali Kocyigit did test positive for the H5N1 virus, and the Turkish health minister Recep Akdag was guilty of spreading disinformation earlier in the week when he said that even if the cause of death was unknown, it definitely wasn’t avian flu.
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