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Ellwood emphasized the importance of maintaining the school’s financial reserves to prepare for unforeseen events, such as an avian flu pandemic, that could put the school in a “challenging situation...
...gras is the highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents are unpredictable. One fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic h5n1 strain of avian flu, which reached...
...symposium on natural and unnatural disasters yesterday. The “In Harm’s Way” symposium, sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, featured four panel discussion groups, which considered topics ranging from social vulnerability patterns to the pending threat of avian bird flu. Summers, a featured speaker at the symposium, said that Harvard’s focus should not be on providing direct financial and logistical assistance to relief efforts. He cautioned against duplicating the work of groups such as the American Red Cross. “Ultimately, we would make the largest...
Professor of Public Health and Political Analysis Robert J. Blendon said that the preventive measures the public is prepared to take during an outbreak of the avian flu could cause an economic crisis within the United States...
...Plunge in Italy's poultry sales since Feb. 11 amid fears of avian...