Bird Flu Monitor > President Outlines Pandemic Influenza Preparations and Response

http://rncnyc2004.blogspot.com [Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004] To protect the greatest possible number of Americans during a pandemic, the cornerstone of our strategy is to develop new technologies that will allow us to produce new vaccines rapidly. If a pandemic strikes our country -- if a pandemic strikes, our country must have a surge capacity in place that will allow us to bring a new vaccine online quickly and manufacture enough to immunize every American against the pandemic strain.

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http://www.dinocrat.com [Dinocrat] H5N1 bird flu, vaccine, the MSM, and the perils of cost-benefit analysis: The cost benefit analysis says not to mass produce a vaccine for a very good reason: to date, the H5N1 virus has never exhibited the ability to infect human-to-human. It doesn’t make sense, from an economic standpoint and an allocation of medical resources standpoint, to stockpile a billion doses of a vaccine for a bug that people can’t transmit to each other.

http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com [Leaping Real Eyes] Bushit Fails to protect Americans: H5N1 Pandemic: Unfortunately, as with the H5N1 vaccine, filling an America-size order could be problematic ”” there's only one company, Roche, that makes Tamiflu, and the line to its door wraps around the world. Our best hope may turn out to be the Tamiflu that Roche is giving away: In a recent surprise announcement, the company said it would donate 3 million treatments to the WHO, so that if H5N1 erupts in Southeast Asia, the supply could immediately be flown to the region to try to stem the outbreak.

Effect Measurehttp://effectmeasure.blogspot.com [Effect Measure] Preparing for a pandemic: GMAFB: In meetings with congressional and administration leaders, IDSA has explained that the H5N1 “bird flu” spreading in Asia has the potential to develop into a pandemic like the one that claimed more than half a million American lives in 1918. Even if this strain does not emerge as a pandemic, infectious disease experts agree that another flu pandemic is just around the corner.

http://loopylibrarian.blogspot.com [LoopyLibrarian - Librarianship with a Jangle Angle] Er ... a gradual drift into todays news......: USA Today on Thursday examined India's HIV/AIDS epidemic and efforts by both government and nongovernmental organizations to fight the spread of the virus. Married men who pay for sex with women, have unprotected sex with other men or engage in injection drug use put themselves and their wives at risk of contracting HIV and are "driving up India's contribution to the next wave of global AIDS, now emerging mainly in Asia," according to USA Today.

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