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Jay Leno sez

Submitted by: Patricia Mason >>                  Maybe the liberal TV is beginning to wake up—- >> >> >> Jay Leno wrote this; it’s the Jay Leno we >> Don’t often see…. >> ‘As most of you know I am not a […]

Bird flu infections to monitor for ‘pandemic’ mutations

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a…
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Bird flu infections to monitor for ‘pandemic’ mutations

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust are to examine what is preventing the H5N1 avian influenza virus from causing a…
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More on the Kanpur mystery outbreak (updated)

Ma Yingshen, who runs the new blog Chen Qi, has been doing a solid job of covering disease news, and she’s picked up a little more about the unidentified outbreak in India’s …
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Iraq: Poultry production falls in Kurdistan

Via The Kurdish Globe: Poultry production capacity falls. Excerpt:. According to statistic published by the Kurdistan Association for Raising Poultry, during the three months of May, June, and July 2007, around 1080000 chickens were …
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Getting to heaven at others' expense

Earlier today I mentioned a religious group east of Vancouver that’s suffering a mumps outbreak because it doesn’t believe in vaccination. It’s getting worse, according to CBC News: Mumps outbreak spreads into Metro Vancouver. Excerpt: …
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CIDRAP: H5N1 turns up at Benin poultry market

Agriculture officials in Benin recently reported that two chickens at a live poultry market tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, the country’s first outbreak since the virus was detected there at the end of 2007. …
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Altschuler on the 1918-antibodies story

Via Time Magazine, an interview with the co-author of the paper on antibodies to the Spanish flu: How Long Does Flu Immunity Last?
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Bird-flu vaccine for humans approved in China - International Herald Tribune […]

Politics as medical malpractice

The great 19th-century German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) once observed: “Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.” A case in point from today’s Globe and Mail on the listeria …
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Vietnam: Smuggling from China brings new H5N1 strain

A strain of the H5N1 virus that poses a high risk of infecting humans and caused an avian flu epidemic in China, has appeared in smuggled poultry in Viet Nam according to Bui Quang Anh, the head of the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural …
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