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...have to offer poor families compensation for birds that are culled. In the long run, though, countries like Turkey need to teach residents of rural villages and urban shanty towns that they can no longer raise poultry haphazardly in their yards and streets, where domestic birds can come into contact with the migrating wild birds that naturally carry the virus around the world...
...household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network of community health volunteers - ordinary Thais like Rampai - has been enlisted to look for possible outbreaks. The volunteers disseminate information about the disease and its symptoms to villagers who normally have little contact with doctors or government officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government has made a special effort to educate the most vulnerable groups: a UNICEF-produced series of comic pamphlets warns rural children - who make up the majority of bird-flu cases - to stay away from...
Tuohey denies that Ney was under pressure to raise funds and says his client had no contact with Abramoff or Scanlon regarding SunCruz. "There was a check to NRCC by SunCruz, and Ney knew nothing about it," Tuohey says...
...reports on television about the outbreaks in Turkey, and you could worry yourself sick. In my opinion, the anxiety is unfounded. ? At the moment, the H5N1 influenza virus is mainly a threat to birds. The virus can infect and kill other animals but only if they have close contact with infected birds. The big concern is that it will gain the ability to pass easily from person to person, possibly by exchanging genes with an ordinary flu virus in the body of some unlucky person infected with both. That has not happened yet, and until it does, there...
...Harvard is not the only school with problems, and it is certainly not the institution alone that should be blamed. As I realized from my time at UCLA, it is especially difficult to have any contact at all with professors at large public universities, and House dinners simply do not exist...