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...Susi campaign. "But as long as she had Alicia she was more or less O.K. Now, though, she's apathetic, her trunk hangs on the ground and she's eating her own excrement. Clearly, she's depressed." (See pictures of how one conservationist manages elephants in the wild in Africa...
H1N1 has already jumped out of animals and established itself in people, so it's too late to contain it, but there are new viruses brewing all the time in the animal world. That includes H5N1 bird flu, which is simmering in Asia and Africa and could still mutate and trigger a pandemic. Globalization has made us especially vulnerable to new diseases--the right pathogen in the right place could spread around the world in 24 hours--but it also gives us the tools to form an effective defense. "The fact that the world is one continuous village now means...
Wolfe's brainchild is a model of what that immune system might look like. With funding from the likes of Google, GVFI has teams on the ground in Africa and Asia surveilling wild animals and the people who live in proximity to them for new pathogens. These "sentinel populations" will provide early warning when a new virus emerges; if a dangerous disease is discovered as soon as it crosses from animals to people, quick action can contain it--but only if we're looking. "Tens of millions for surveillance could save us the hundreds of billions it would cost...
Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine indicates that countries in the developing world are totally unprepared for a pandemic. That's especially true in Africa, where many nations lack pandemic plans altogether, even though high rates of HIV infection there would probably worsen the toll of flu. But there are international models the U.S. can follow. Hong Kong was ravaged by SARS in 2003, but today the city has 20 million courses of Tamiflu--three times its population. (The U.S. Federal Government has enough for just one-sixth of the population, with additional stockpiles held...
From Beach to Isle. Spanish airline Air Europa will begin flying weekly from Miami to Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, on June 20. The Saturday flight to the volcanic isles, just off the northwestern coast of Africa, leaves Miami at 5 p.m., arriving in Tenerife 7:35 a.m., and costs about $700 round-trip...