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[Enflu] "Our ultimate goal is to stockpile sufficient quantities of antiviral drugs to treat 25 percent of the U.S. population," U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt said in a release.
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[Usnews.com] USNews.com: Health: US to stockpile more vaccine: The massive expenditure, in an amendment to a health, education, and labor spending bill, would increase stockpiles of the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, thought to be effective against current strains of bird flu. It also would stockpile vaccine, increase global efforts to detect and contain a superflu, and boost emergency preparations at state and local levels.
[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: Another WHO expert, Dr Mike Ryan, director of epidemic and pandemic alert, said, "We truly feel that this present threat is likely to stretch our global systems to the point of collapse." H5N1 has continued to spread easily from country to country and scientists are sounding more alarmist with each new human case and with each discovery of the virus in a new country.
[Birdflumonitor.com] Bird Flu Monitor: December 2005 Archives:
[Shanghaiist] After yesterday’s confident announcement on China’s ability to contain bird flu, Shanghaiist winced as we thought we heard rumbling overhead, and then we went straight to various sources searching for news of more bird flu outbreaks. The last time China tempted the gods made an announcement like this in November, Shanghaiist seems to recall the beginning of a rash of new outbreaks throughout the country.
[H5N1Drome] Today's Feed: 今年恐怖的事件不断发生,首先是H5N1然后现在又变成了猪链球菌,看上去好像是普通的猪瘟,但却时刻威胁着人类的生命。其实什么瘟、什么瘟以前也不是没有发生过,但人类从来都没有像现在如此的恐慌。以前的都是把动物杀死了就没事了,动物大范围的死亡,人类只是财产上的损失,虽然心痛,但起码人类的生命还能报住自己的生命...!We can't flee, we can't flow, we have to learn how to face!!! 从候鸟到人们经常生活吃的三鸟,再到生活几乎必不可少的猪牛,三鸟有H5N1 ...
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