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http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com [Firefighter Blog] "The success of a strategy for containing an emerging pandemic virus is strictly time dependent," the WHO said in its latest containment report, based on recommendations by 70 international experts who held closed-door talks in March. "Mathematical models have indicated that a containment strategy, based on the mass administration of antiviral drugs, has a chance of success only when drugs are administered within 21 days following the timely detection of the first case representing improved human-to-human transmission of...

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http://foreverstandingfirm.blogspot.com [standing firm because He is holding me up] And At One Point The Ark Door Shut: Because the Government has warned...no one is coming to help. If it happens. The CP interview: Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy talks about the flu bug that could bring the world to its knees. BY STEVE PERRY

http://influenzapandemic.blogspot.com [The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] May 22 Flu Update--Today, there is a large... : ``The virus is still the H5N1 strain based on the sequencing DNA examination but we need to confirm'' with the World Health Organization's lab in Hong Kong, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters in Jakarta today. ``But I think it will not be much different.''

[Health News Blog * Health News and Information *] Human-to-Human Spread of Bird Flu Suspected in... : The Canadian Press reports that human-to-human transmission of bird flu is a possiblity in the death of Indonesian man who was killed by the H5N1 virus. One possiblity is that the man could have been infected by his son who also died from the bird flu virus.

http://h5n1updates.wordpress.com [H5n1updates.wordpress.com] H5N1:The Avian Flu Pandemic » Blog Archive » Roche to Detail ...: Roche, which sold 1.6 billion Swiss francs ($1.23 billion) worth of Tamiflu last year, is trying to increase access to the drug to ease political pressure to give up the treatment’s patents so more can be made in case of an avian influenza outbreak. Roche has donated more than 5 million doses of the medicine to the World Health Organization.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu H5N1: At the first major international co-ordination meeting on bird flu, a senior World Bank economist said that if the financial fallout of the SARS outbreak two years ago is any indication, a flu pandemic could cause world gross domestic product to drop by 2 per cent or more. That would amount to about $800-billion (U.S.) in losses over the course of a year, said Milan Brahmbhatt.

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