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...Every hundred years there have been three or four pandemics and there's no reason to believe we will be spared." DR. KLAUS STOHR, head of the World Health Organization's Global Influenza Programme, on the possibility that the avian-flu virus, which has killed 32 people in Thailand and Vietnam so far this year, could lead to a worldwide outbreak...
...italics and exclamation points and repetitions--repetitions!--for emphasis, but Wolfe himself speaks softly, slowly and a little hoarsely, with the ruins of a long-ago Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky, his mischievous smile a little snaggle-toothed. His hair is midlength and floppy, à la David Spade. He still wears his trademark white suit, accessorized with some kind of high-gloss old-timey shoes, but it hangs a little loose...
...head of the WHO's influenza team. By the weekend, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were still studying the viral samples, trying to determine whether the virus had mutated significantly?or worse, reassorted with a human flu. The latter would be alarming, notes WHO avian-flu expert Dr. Hiroshi Oshitani, but it wouldn't automatically mean the virus had hit upon the right combination to start a pandemic...
...frightening respiratory disease SARS, which paralyzed much of Asia in the spring of 2003, has since faded from the headlines, obscured by rising new threats like avian influenza. But scientists know that SARS is not gone for good, and research efforts to unlock the secrets of the virus that left almost 800 dead continue. At the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where the SARS coronavirus was first identified in March 2003, researchers last week announced the results of a landmark study that could point the way toward potential anti-SARS drugs and provide a potent research tool to quickly analyze...
...promising anti-SARS drugs, and HKU plans to begin animal-testing some of the most effective compounds soon. But the real value of the study is the clearer picture it offers of the SARS virus and the blueprint it provides for research responses to any future emerging diseases, like avian flu. "We can react more rapidly, and we can find new drugs that specifically target the disease," Kao says. "If there's a new virus, we can jump onto this...