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[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: North America: Wide variations exist among communities in the ability of local officials to cope with an outbreak, with smaller jurisdictions likely at a disadvantage. The suggestion has been made that government facilities and health care personnel could provide a significant surge capacity, but as Box 2 discusses, the medical capacity of the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security is also limited.

[Pandemicfacts.com] Pandemic Virus Facts and Information » Bird Flu: Today’s press conference sponsored by the U.S. State Department was held to mark the anniversary of last year’s announcement by President Bush, during this same opening week of the UN General Assembly in New York, of an “International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.” The partnership’s members include the United Nations and its key relevant branches, the WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as the U.S., the European Union, Japan, Canada, Australia, and some of the countries where H5N1 avian flu is already established.

 [Women Health and Environtment] Bird Flu to Europe: Peter Marra, a migration expert at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C said that about 30 percent of ducks might be carrying some form of low pathogenic avian influenza, which doesn't hurt them or other ducks or animals that they might interact with. It used to be assumed that the virulent H5N1 virus killed migrating waterfowl before they traveled anywhere, but that assumption has taken some hits in recent months.

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