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[Avian Flu Diary] Mike -- You are absolutely right and it's most thoughtful of you to remind everyone--those concerned or unconcerned about flu--that we are ALL likely to complain about whatever the government winds up doing. It will prove either to have been too much or too little.

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[Health Service Journal - All HSJ stories] Call of the wild: the future threat of animal diseases | Resource ...: “It is difficult because people do get very anxious about things that we can see are a low risk and yet they’re very unconcerned about things that are all around them and are much higher risk,” says Dr Morgan. “How do you balance a handful [of cases of] a horrendous illness in young people, which will kill you, like vCJD, against campylobacter and salmonella, which still cause high rates of hospitalisation and some deaths in England and Wales?

[The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette] The 2009 Swine Flu: The Hype and the Response « The Proud ...: On the surface it sounds like the government is at least doing something, until you read the April 27 Reuters report on what is really happening at the border and that “Mexicans are continuing to (illegally) cross the border by car and foot, seemingly unconcerned by the influenza scare and only a handful are wearing masks.”  The failure to secure the border in a time of emergency in order to protect the health and welfare of American citizens is a sign that this administration has chosen political correctness over the safety of its own citizens. It’s sad to say, but I don’t believe a Republican administration would take the necessary steps either.

[Black Power » Politics] U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu | Lifestyle ...: Hong Kong, shaped by lasting scars as an epicenter of the SARS outbreak, announced very tough measures. Officials there urged travelers to avoid Mexico and ordered the immediate detention of anyone arriving with a fever higher than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit after traveling through any city with a confirmed outbreak, which would include New York.

[scan man's notes] Swine Flu Update: high-level meeting on swine flu outbreak ended on Monday, the government issued a travel advisory, asking Indians to restrict visits to Mexico, US, Canada, New Zealand and France. The health ministry called experts from National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Indian Council of Medical Research in the meeting to chalk out preliminary containment measures if the virus springs up in Asian countries.

[Xiao Tang Blog] US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu - NYTimes.com: Top global experts struggled to predict how dangerous the new A (H1N1) swine flu strain would be as it became clear that they had too little information about Mexico’s outbreak — in particular how many cases had occurred in what is thought to be a month before the outbreak was detected, and whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.

[Avian Bird Flu] Avian Bird Flu - Profs zero in on immunity: CattleNetwork.com - Intisar Fareed, 30, died Sunday after she and two members of members of an extended family living in a single dwelling in Gharbiya province, to the north of Cairo , tested positive for the deadly strain of avian flu. Hassan el-Bushra, a regional

[World Prout Assembly] World Prout Assembly: Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms: Profit ...: Tyson management coercively interrogated workers about their union sympathies, threatened to arrest workers exercising their lawful rights, threatened union supporters with firing if they remained loyal to the union, and fired fifty-one workers for supporting the union. Tyson Foods CEO, John Tyson, who calls himself a ‘devout Christian,’ talks about creating a ‘faith-friendly company.’ Instead of union members working, he prefers to have what the company calls its, ‘relationship with Team Members (sic) as we operate without a union.’

[Fact-esque, A Reality-Based Blog] Blind Eyes: The public is largely unconcerned about men's welfare on a raft of separate issues. In fact if anyone tries to bring up male issues they are usually attacked on so-called progressive boards by people who pretend to champion issues of gender discrimination.

[Mises Economics Blog] Environmentalists hate humans. - Mises Economics Blog: If he is simply warning that mankind is vulnerable to a huge epidemic from something nasty, like Ebola or a new avian flu, then of course he's right. The avian flu of 1918 killed millions, and the world's poulation is now multiples of that size with no place to run or hide.

[Journal Weblog] Journal Weblog: January 2006 Archives: Not that PETA's above making the same accusations of John Tyson or Frank Perdue, but these men have no "monument" to their accomplishments on display in a state capitol building. The Sanders bust gave the PETA protest the status it needed.

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