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[Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bird flu pandemic 'could ...: A global influenza pandemic is imminent and will kill up to 150 million people, the UN official in charge of coordinating the worldwide response to an outbreak has warned.
[Stephensonstrategies.com] W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.: flu prep and fiscal realities: fliers should be tracked, but who pays?There's no question that one of the most dangerous ways that a flu pandemic could quickly spread world wide is through passengers on trans-oceanic flights who'd all be breathing the same already godawful air, and that one of the best means to help contain such transmission would be to record personal information on fliers so that they could be notified instantly if they had been exposed while flying. That's what CDC is logically asking airlines to do (they want the airlines to record passengers' full names and address, emergency contact numbers and detailed flight info -- such as connecting flights -- keep the info for 60 days* and provide it to CDC within 12 hours of a request).
[Nature.com] news @ nature.com - -: Bird flu outbreaks in Asia have prompted the cull of tens of thousands of ducks and chickens to curtail the disease's spread. As the human death toll continues to grow, many are concerned that the virus will mutate and trigger a human pandemic.
[Gillinc.blogspot.com] Gill Blog: October 2004: Gill Blog is the personal weblog of Tony Gill, discussing topics of interest, workplace continuity, disaster preparedness, and risk management for corporations and organizations in the public and private sectors. Opinions expressed on this blog are the personal thoughts of the writer, and not his employer, which is not responsible for this publication.
[Pbs.org] NOVA | scienceNOW | January 10, 2006: Links & Books | PBS: The American Institute of Mathematics Web site provides technical descriptions of the twin prime conjecture and offers downloadable copies of the recent paper by Daniel Goldston, Cem Yildirim, and János Pintz.
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