Word: burnet
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...increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. Richard J. Brennan, M.D. International Rescue Committee New York City Benjamin Coghlan, M.D. Burnet Institute Melbourne, Australia...
...increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. Richard J. Brennan, M.D. International Rescue Committee New York City Benjamin Coghlan, M.D. Burnet Institute Melbourne, Australia It is wrenching to see the people of a vast and resourceful country suffer such malnutrition, disease and terror while the U.S. and the rest of the world blithely go their own way. You have opened our eyes; now we have to open our hearts. Kurt Frey...
...increase the peacekeeping force to a level that would make that possible. It is a shame that the decision to allocate resources in a crisis is too often based on political considerations rather than humanitarian need. RICHARD J. BRENNAN, M.D. INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE New York City ----------------- BENJAMIN COGHLAN, M.D. BURNET INSTITUTE Melbourne, Australia...
...knew it occurred. Still, it killed 34,000 Americans. The 1918 pandemic was far more lethal. It killed 675,000 Americans at a time when the U.S. population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million people perished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate F. Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years. The difference in the death toll between 1918 and 1968 had little to do with such medical advances as antibiotics for secondary bacterial infections. The 1968 virus was simply much less virulent. But it wasn...