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  Article 19: Markos of Daily Kos fame has an op-ed in the Washington Post detailing his current opposition to her candidacy--I think he's a bit too hard on her, and I think he over-estimates the influence of the netroots, as much as I hate to say it, but I agree with the thrust of his complaint. How can she criticize the war effort she essentially still supports?

 [Pandemic Flu from Europe] Bird flu clusters befuddle scientists: Yet, after two weeks of extensive field work and laboratory testing, the WHO has not been able to determine the source of the virus. Given the rural area where the cluster occurred, where farming and livestock are the main source of food, it’s easy to see how difficult it would be to isolate the virus.

[Avian Flu] Reuters.com: No bird flu virus mutation seen in... : “We are going wide, contacting the various contacts, putting on (anti-viral) Tamiflu whoever has had close contact, basically putting family members who have not been affected on Tamiflu as a precaution,” Mehta told Reuters in an interview in Jakarta.

 [Pandemic Flu from Europe] Health chiefs fear worst over family killed by... : World health chiefs said today that they were increasingly concerned about the bird flu deaths of six Indonesians from one family, raising fears of the first human-to-human transmission of the deadly H5N1 virus.

[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Even as the World Health Organization presses China and other countries to share bird-flu data for the public good, the WHO itself runs a database limited to a select group of scientists and containing a massive trove of data -- some 2,300 genetic sequences of the virus, around a third of the world's known sequences, according to two people familiar with the database's contents. Any one of those sequences could hold clues to an effective human vaccine or drugs that could kill the virus, or help scientists determine how great a threat it poses.

 [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Doctors spot mutation in ...: Michael Purdue, who is overseeing the response to the avian flu outbreak in Turkey on behalf of the WHO, said the mutation now being reported had been spotted before in east Asia - where the disease has killed more than 70 people - in Hong Kong in 2003 and Vietnam in 2005. It was too soon to say what it meant.

 [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: In the days before "bird flu every time, all the time," and about the time EM started, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) released a report expressing concern about the increasing use of tasers in the US, documenting about 70 taser-associated deaths in people hit by this "non-lethal" weapon in North America. Many of the fatalities also were individuals under the influence of drugs or alcohol, so coroners tended to discount the role of the taser in the sudden deaths, although there was increasing concern that the tasers were combining with drugs or alcohol to cause the deaths.

[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.

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