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[Emaxhealth] Letter: Prevent Human-To-Human Birth Flu Not Cure: Indeed, the avian flu strain is 20 times more virulent than the 1917/18 Spanish flu that killed between 50 million and 100 million people, but where this time, literally hundreds of millions will perish with this ill thought out strategy by our political leaders and governments. What should have been undertaken is that this highly contagious disease should have been addressed at its source (prevention) and where history again will confirm this eventual conclusion.

[Spartan Daily Headlines] Campus officials prepare response plan for avian flu - News: A possible mutation of the avian flu has prompted a San Jose State University planning committee to develop a pandemic response plan designed to protect university students and staff members but still allow normal activity to continue.

[Health Supreme] China: Will Nano Selenium Help Prevent Avian Pandemic? - Health ...: Recently, there have been many reports about the indirect role of selenium on viruses, and the most outstanding is that supplementation of selenium can increase the number and activity of NK cells (natural killer cells). NK cells, as the most primitive and most instinctive immune and killing cells, are a specific type of T cell, and have a strong immune and killing capacity for all microorganisms (including all kinds of viruses) and variant cells.

[Ekrgriseldastephanie's Weblog] Natural Solutions for Avian Bird Flu: Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness said the country’s waiting so long to address the threat of an avian flu pandemic is the “biological equivalent of not fixing the levees” in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck.

[Articles] The Birds Is Coming!: We must regain our footing with regular sleep, regular meals, regular entertainment, regular exercise, and regular work. We must resist those who choose the wrong danger, hype the need to respond, and then bungle the response””making the threat seem even more real.

[The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond] Earth-Born 'Andromeda Strain': Animal-transmitted Microbes Pose ...: Combining tales of devastating epidemics with science and fascinating history, Deadly Companions reveals how closely microbes have evolved with us over the millennia, shaping human civilization through infection, disease, and deadly pandemic. Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, Dorothy Crawford takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and humanity, offering an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics, and identifying key changes in the way humans have lived--such as our move from hunter-gatherer to farmer to city-dweller--which made us ever more vulnerable to microbe attack.

[The Doctor Weighs In] www.thedoctorweighsin.com - Current posts - Origins of Major Human ...: Most alarming: stage 2 and 3 pathogens, like Ebola, will migrate north and will undergo rapid evolution to stages 4 and 5 through genetic mutations that will allow them to become exclusively human diseases. This has already happened: HIV/AIDS is a case in point.

[Accelerating Future] Accelerating Future » Kinematically Self-Replicating Entities: Because the locus of evolutionary selection is the DNA-shell (organism) itself, current species are quite poor at truly cooperating with their conspecifics, social animals notwithstanding. Deep down, we are wired to be constantly competing for a limited pool of resources and self-replication opportunities, and much energy is expended on this competition, which takes place among bacteria just as it does within humanity.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: August 30, 2007: Jeff Masters at Weather Underground said in his blog that loss of arctic sea ice would result in more moisture and heat in the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere, likely delaying the onset of winter this year. He didn't mention a model for it, and I can't seem to locate an archive of his August blog entries.

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