Word: flu
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...released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with alerts on everything from the threat of terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia to the possibility of flu-tainted chicken in Hong Kong...
SNUFFING OUT FLU An experimental vaccine that reduces kids' odds of getting the flu also lowers the risk of complications like ear infections. Fewer tears too: it's not a shot, it's a nose spray...
...doesn't account for this huge discrepancy." His top picks, too, expect to have drugs approved within two years: Biochem Pharma (hepatitis) and Centocor (blood clots). Another fan of companies with late-stage drugs is Evan Sturza, editor of Sturza's Medical Investment Letter, whose top picks are Aviron (flu), Gilead Sciences (HIV, hepatitis) and Sepracor (side effects from Prozac, Claritin and others...
Your excellent detective story about the emergence of avian flu [MEDICINE, Feb. 23] was an important reminder that the most threatening bioterrorist may not be a belligerent Iraqi, a lunatic cult or a white-supremacist group but nature itself. Without warning and with little provocation, nature can deploy an army of rats and mice and an air force of birds and stealthy bats to deliver a swarm of deadly new viruses. All we can do is react to the first casualties of such an attack. EDWARD MCSWEEGAN Crofton...
Rather than immunize humans with entirely new vaccines, which are difficult to manufacture and whose use would be economically feasible only in the developed world, it may be more cost effective to immunize poultry and swine against avian and swine (and possibly human) H and N flu antigens to eliminate the reservoirs for antigenic reassortment and thus 1918-type epidemics. ROY CURTISS III, Professor of Biology Washington University St. Louis...