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http://michaelturton.blogspot.com [The View from Taiwan] Hoping Hospital, at the center of the outbreak, had been run by the opposition KMT, the former ruling party, and was already famous for its obstructionist tactics even before its incompetence and procrastination helped spur the SARS outbreak. Most upsetting of all, the WHO, so courageous in confronting disease germs, showed an utter lack of moral courage in confronting China over SARS in Taiwan.

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http://news.imagethief.com [News.imagethief.com] Imagethief : Wednesday PR Blog: Run For Your Lives! It's Bird Flu!: I would vouchsafe the following observation: bird flu became a global threat when it emerged in China, which has forgotten more about keeping birds, pigs and humans in close, unsanitary and flu-recombining proximity than Europe has ever known. China also has an opaque government not fond of disclosing the details of disease outbreaks, marginal healthcare facilities and, lest it need be pointed out, one quarter of the global population.

http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: A Bird Flu Commission?: The failure to get the US (and many other countries) ready for the bird flu freight train coming down the tracks would be scandalous, if scandalous were a word able to do justice to the magnitude of the negligence. The CDC, our frontline agency against infectious diseases, has been wrecked beyond repair by its Director, Dr.

[Americanblogparty.blogs.com] American Blog Party: Odds and Ends - Newsworthy Stories Not ...: if a human has the normal human flu virus in his/her system, then catches the bird virus, a mutation will occur within this human creating a part human and part bird virus. Since humans have no natural defense to the bird virus, coupled with the new ability of the virus to aggresively travel from human to human, the outcome would be catastrophic, or what is commonly refered to as a pandemic.

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