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[Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004] White House Press Briefing Pandemic Influenza... : Given the pattern of history, which suggests that bird flu viruses played a role in pandemics over the past century, we cannot ignore the possibility that this virus could evolve into one that infects and is transmitted to humans. At present, scientists believe that there is a risk, that the virus is more likely to be acquired and be transmitted between human in areas where there is widespread outbreaks of virus and birds, and significant contact between infected animals and humans.
[Welcome to the Guyana Resource Center] Stories from the Guyana Chronicle: He added that Cuba is prepared to donate all the bulbs needed to replace the incandescent ones. In addition, he observed that a compact fluorescent bulb of lower wattage produces the same brightness and loses less energy in the form of heat compared to incandescent bulbs of a higher wattage.
[Stayin' Alive] Epidemic of fear?: Luc Bonneux and Wim Van Damme, in the new BMJ (off limits to commoners) offer a commentary entitled "An iatrogenic pandemic of panic." They mean to suggest that public health authorities have created such a pandemic by warning the public about the dangers of an influenza pandemic potentially arising from the current zoonotic of H5N1 avian flu. This parallels the dust-up which has been going on at Effect Measure between the proprietors and popular medical writer Marc Siegel, who in most public forums* seems to make approximately the same argument.
[Scienceblogs.com] Aetiology: Blog tag re: avian flu policymaking: If we sunk some real money into new vaccine development strategies, allowing us to quickly manufacture vaccines against whatever Mother Nature throws at us, it would protect us not only against yearly changes in circulating flu strains, but also against other emergent pathogens, such as SARS, WN, Ebola, whatever. Similar with money for surveillance for pathogens, in order to detect them early and get the vaccine facilities crankin' if it was determined the agent was a real threat.
[Dinocrat.com] Dinocrat » Blog Archive » H5N1 bird flu, vaccine, the MSM, and the ...: Supplying even the amount of vaccine ordered for yearly US influenza vaccination programs is problematic, as evidenced by last flu season’s shortage when the Chiron company was unable to produce the almost-50 million doses it was to supply to the United States. In a flu pandemic, vaccine for the worldwide population would be needed.
[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: November 2005: Masato Tashiro, head of virology at Tokyo’s National Institute of Infectious Disease - a WHO-collaborating centre for bird flu - showed a slide at a meeting of virologists in Marburg, Germany, on 19 November listing “several dozen” outbreaks in people, 300 deaths, 3000 people placed in isolation, and seven human-to-human transmissions. The meeting was reported in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
[Scienceg8.com] Sciencegate » Avian Flu: There has been a media frenzy surrounding Avian Flu and the potential for a human pandemic. While public health needs are currently enjoying increased attention as a result, some epidemiologists fear a 'boy-who-cried-wolf' scenario, in which the public and politicians revoke their support for pandemic preparedness after six months or so because the still-hypothetical plague has yet to appear.
[Msnbc.msn.com] Hoarding halts flu drug shipments in US - Cold & Flu - MSNBC.com: It is not possible to create a functioning vaccine until a pandemic strain ... No people have been infected by bird flu in Russia. The H5N1 strain of the ...
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