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To: michael97123 who wrote (157456)	1/31/2005 4:50:33 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Things are being done. Chiron has a vaccine that I believe is going in to testing shortly, or may already be in testing- I'm sure it's in the news, if you are interested. I don't think enough is being done, considering the seriousness of pandemics, but then we need to spend 1 billion a day in Iraq- how much money do we have left?

To: michael97123 who wrote (157456)	1/31/2005 5:12:05 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

Here. This is from a site that promotes Poultry industry so they would be more likely to play down fears than exploit them. Dozens of articles tracking the issue. AAP via 7 - 11th December 2004 Flu pandemic 'could wreck ecosystem' A medical expert has warned that the next flu pandemic could wreck the global ecosystem, in addition to killing millions of people worldwide, a newspaper reported. The World Health Organisation warned last week that bird flu is the mostly likely candidate to combine with a human virus, creating a new strain that could trigger a worldwide pandemic and kill as many as seven million people. BBC - 29th January 2005 Bird flu 'passed between humans' THAILAND - Scientists have said a woman who died of bird flu probably contracted the disease from her daughter. The researchers from the Thai Ministry of Public Health warn it is likely there will be more cases where the virus is passed from human-to-human. Professor John Oxford, a leading UK expert, said the virus had broken down the "final door" which prevented it being spread between people. The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Hindustantimes.com - 1st October 2004 THAILAND - Thousands of Thailand's poultry farmers will probably go out of business because they cannot afford to implement government plans to overhaul farming methods to stamp out deadly bird flu. Already reeling from the slaughter of tens of millions of chickens since bird flu was confirmed in January, farmers are now being pressed to abandon the basic wood-and-wire chicken coops which have provided a steady income for decades. thepoultrysite.com cbsnews.com

To: michael97123 who wrote (157456)	1/31/2005 8:26:55 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Start here: The risk comes from a virus jumping from bird to man and then man to man. So far, it has spread bird to man and is smallscale. It has now in at least one case gone man to man. The largest pandemic occured in 1919 and killed 20 million worldwide -- a bird flu would be a strain to which we would have no immunity and it would be passed around as easily as any other flu. It is impossible to know when this flu will hit -- so companies are reluctant to invest in this. There has been some private sector activity -- if this hits hard and fast we will be defenseless. cdc.gov