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...moment, we are losing more than we are winning." Peter Cordingley, World Health Organization spokesman, on the human toll of avian flu, which has killed 18 people in Asia...
...tell the truth ... That is why we don't speak straightforwardly, because we read minds and we speak what the other side wants to hear." Jakrapob Penkair, spokesman for the government of Thailand, responding to press accusations that the government has covered up the country's avian-flu crisis...
...Fighters The mass culling of chickens in Thailand and other parts of Asia [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 2] did not mark the first time that officials have taken radical measures to control the outbreak of poultry disease. We reported on an eerily similar situation two years ago when a strain of avian-flu virus threatened to jump from birds to humans...
Edwards said he will bring research projects to Harvard that tie together avian ecology, evolution and behavior...
...said he is also interested in genes that enable birds to fight disease in the wild, and how disease molds the evolution of avian species...