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 [Frat Pack College Fraternity, Sorority, Frat Party Community Message Board Frat Pack Forum] Bush to Unveil Super-Flu Strategy on Tues.: Bush on Tuesday is visiting the National Institutes of Health to announce his administration's strategy on how to prepare for the next flu pandemic, whether it's caused by the bird flu in Asia or some other super strain of influenza. Federal health officials have spent the last year updating a national plan on how to do that.

 [Fergie's Tech Blog] H5N1 News: Bush to unveil U.S. pandemic plan tomorrow: Bush’s speech will update a draft pandemic preparedness plan that the Department of Health and Human Services released in August 2004. The speech will come days after the Senate added $8 billion to the 2006 HHS appropriations bill, which passed last Thursday, to help combat an avian flu outbreak.

 [Bush Out (by Gandhi)] Bush Co: Cashing In On Bird Flu Fears Guess who o...: Lawmakers angry at months of delay have already given Bush money to begin those preparations: $8 billion in emergency funding that the Senate, pushed by Democrats, passed on Thursday -- and an amount considered close to what federal health officials will need.

[blog-j] Bush Fights the Superflu: It also is ordering millions of doses of Tamiflu and Relenza, two antiflu drugs believed to offer some protection against the bird flu, stockpiles that the pandemic plan is expected to order be augmented.

 [Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Here's the transcript: "At this hour, the World Health Organization has declared a full-scale pandemic influenza alert, with person-to-person spread lasting more than two weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam. During previous influenza pandemics in the United States, large numbers of people were ill, sought medical care, were hospitalized and died.

[Epidemi.ca] EPIDEMIca | 3.0 | A weblog about infectious disease by MJ Milloy: So today's speech to ministers of health gathered in Ottawa to prepare for pandemic influenza was vintage Martin. A call-out to his pet theory du jour -- "this gathering reflects, in my view, the imperative for a new multilateralism" -- a bit of policy wonkery -- "the challenge we face today is extraordinarily complex;

[Riehlworldview.com] Riehl World View: Avian Flu H5N1: Bush met with top health and security advisers about ways the United States can deal with a influenza pandemic and scheduled a meeting with top vaccine manufacturers for Friday, and members of Congress introduced legislation that would help develop better flu vaccines and help spot outbreaks at the earliest moment.

[Finance.baylor.edu] The Jim Garven Weblog: Bush's avian flu initiative (AKA the ...: According to FAO, highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza is now endemic in poultry in many parts of Indonesia. As influenza virus activity in Indonesia may increase during the wet season, from November to April, human exposure to animal virus could be greater during the coming months.

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