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[RED STAR NEWS» Thoughts, news and small talk mainly concerning China, from a berlin perspective (sorry for my poor English)] The nightmare of a new global flu epidemic makes good headlines and the media is often criticized when speculating about it. While there is a temptation to sex-up reports to attract readers and it is true that a lot of journalists take the bait it is nevertheless also true that all experts agree, that it is not a question if but when it will happen.

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Vegsource.comhttp://www.vegsource.com [Vegsource.com] Blog Plate Special: 06/05/2005 - 06/11/2005: Scientists are fretting, as are the owners of places like Gail's Bait Pail, Kib's Fish Camp and other spots along what locals call Lake O, Florida's largest and perhaps most mysterious body of water. The speckled perch population has plummeted, and the lake's largemouth bass, which draw tournament fishermen from around the nation, are also in danger.

http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: March 2005: There is also a reflex tendency to defend our own prior judgments or statements, as I did when reader Gaudia objected to my casual characterization of Roche's Tamiflu storage indications as "room temperature." Nothing much rested on this matter and I could easily have let it go. I didn't, instead dredging up a statement from The National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus database to show they also characterized Tamiflu storage as "room temperature." My point here is it isn't only economic incentives that can modify our perceptions, how we express things and how we react to others.

Freespeechradio.net[Freespeechradio.net] FEBRUARY 2005 ARCHIVES PART 2: Thailand, one of two countries at the centre of the bird flu outbreak, is refusing to act against its spread, scuppering attempts to stop a devastating pandemic expected to kill tens of millions of people around the globe. An emergency plan to tackle the disease, drawn up by the country's Deputy Prime Minister, would have involved slaughtering more than ten million ducks and chickens, and distributing face masks to protect people from catching the flu.

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