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[Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004] U.S. International Avian and Pandemic Influenza Assistance Tops $434 Million The United States announced today an increase of $100 million in international assistance to address the threat of avian and pandemic influenza since January 2006.The announcement came at an international conference in Bamako co-sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Mali, the European Commission and the African Union. Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza John E.
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[Nature.com] news @ nature.com - Bird flu 2005: the ongoing story - News@nature ...: Tashiro wrote that in his talk he merely pointed out that the World Heath Organisation's official numbers of H5N1 human cases in China include only those that have been confirmed in a laboratory - and they may be an underestimate, since the surveillance system in China is poor. Tashiro notes that he discussed some of the rumoured cases but adds he does "not think that the Chinese Authority will conceal the facts from the world".
[Neuropsychological.blogspot.com] BrainBlog: Pandemic-Flu (H5N1, Avian Influenza, "Bird Flu ...: [comment: A very readable account of what happened and why in the 1918 pandemic, with an emphasis on the political expediences and cronyism of the day and media complacency - along with accounts of the public-health leaders who needed to fight not only the virus, but politicians and newspaper editors in order to eke out ways of dealing with the virus. Also, a good description of how this type of influenza differs from the typical, yearly bouts of influenza that most all of us are aware of.]
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