An editorial in The Japan Times: Coping with new strains of flu. Excerpt: The Diet has passed revisions to the Infectious Disease Law and the Quarantine Law to effectively cope with a possible outbreak of new types of influenza. There is fear that deadly new types of influenza will emerge, since the H5N1 bird flu is spreading mainly in Southeast Asia …

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Japan’s plans for a pandemic

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