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...legal issues beforehand, said professors in a panel at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday. Attracting a crowd of around 40 people, three prominent law professors on the panel explored the intersection of law, ethics, and public health in policies to address a public health crisis, such as an avian flu outbreak. David Fidler, a law professor at Indiana University and a past consultant for the World Health Organization, focused on the framing of public health concerns, particularly the spread of pandemics, as national security threats. He said that while linking public health to security may increases the political importance...
...needs to level with the American people about some of the problems we face, he needs to be willing to—and I think Secretary Rice is starting to do this—actually realize there is no unilateral American solution to global terrorism or AIDS or avian flu or global warming. You’re going to have to have a more engaged foreign policy...
...study being published in Thursday?s New England Journal of Medicine provides disappointing news on the avian flu front. The good news is that the study of 451 healthy adults shows that a vaccine manufactured by Sanofi Aventis using current standard techniques is safe. The bad news is that the inoculation will most likely be effective in humans only at the highest doses. Furthermore, the results show that the vaccine - as it is currently constituted - would take two and perhaps three injections to achieve good protection. That is a problem, since the U.S.?s already modest stockpile of material...
...hoped the result would be better than this," says Dr. John Treanor of the University of Rochester in New York. But Treanor, who led the study, says he was neither surprised nor discouraged by the result. A previous test of a more experimental avian flu vaccine reached a similar conclusion last year...
...least, however, researchers have established a baseline of what is currently possible and what still needs to be done to create an avian flu vaccine for people. Already there are other studies under way to see if the dosage can be reduced by adding so-called adjuvants - like aluminum hydroxide or another compound called MS59 - to boost the vaccine?s effectiveness. Aluminum hydroxide has been used as an adjuvant previously in the U.S., whereas another compound called MS59 has been used in Europe...