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 [The Word Unheard] China Outbreak: More Questions...and Yale Weighs In: China has denied the claims, but for anyone who follows both Chinese-language underground news agencies and the medical organisations that obsessively monitor emerging viruses, the Boxun reports and the international online response to them recalls early 2003, when news emerged of a killer virus in Guangdong. The virus was Sars, which became a menace overnight after a Boxun report interrupted a long media clampdown by Beijing.

[danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Blog] Following up on the avian flu: Second, preventative capsules of the antiviral drug Tamiflu would have to be given to thousands of people who might have come into contact with those infected. This would require the World Health Organisation to build an emergency stockpile of 3m courses of Tamiflu to be deployed anywhere at short notice, said Neil Ferguson, head of the Imperial College team.

 [En.wikipedia.org] Avian influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: It is feared that if the avian influenza virus undergoes antigenic shift with a human influenza virus, the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans. Such a subtype could cause a global influenza pandemic, similar to the Spanish Flu that killed over 20 million people in 1918 (though a variety of sources quote average figures even higher, up to 100 million in some cases).

[Crofsblogs.typepad.com] H5N1: Russian flu blog: ????????." href="http://h5n1.nm.ru/index.html">H5N1 to my list of avian-flu news sources and websites. It's the first Russian-language flu blog I've encountered;

[Powerpundit.com] Avian Flu Is Spreading: The gravest fear would be realized if the Avian flu virus mutates, such that human to human spread would be possible. In the Indonesian cases, the Avian virus was the apparent cause of death of a father and his two daughters, but it is not clear whether the flu was passed from him to his daughters, or whether they were all simply exposed to the same viral source.

[Andypryke.com] InfluenzaPandemic - AndyPryke.com: Many papers and websites report that Hippocrates documents an influenza epidemic in 412, but I have been unable to find references. My guess is that many of these have just copied the info without checking, but that the original reference is to "the Cough of Perinthus" in book IV in the book "Of the Epidemics"

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