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According to a leaked copy of a recent federal report, a major Asian outbreak of human flu could reach the U.S. in a matter of weeks, and, according to Forbes.com, “could lead to the deaths of 1.9 million Americans and the hospitalization of 8.5 million more people with costs exceeding $450 billion.” Such a scenario now seems vastly more likely with the discovery, last week, that the avian flu virus can mutate independently to become a lethal strain to humans...
However, preemptively increasing the President’s power with a further militarization of American society is the absolutely worst way to respond to the flu threat. The U.S. military is an unwieldy force that possesses combat—not medical—expertise. Forced quarantines could only be a desperate last resort after a massive collapse of health infrastructure. Instead of improving communication between local, state, and federal emergency services, increased military power would amplify mistakes made at the top of the chain of command...
...husband John Gregory Dunne’s death of “a sudden massive coronary event” on the evening of December 30, 2003. Five days prior to Dunne’s death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne had gone to the emergency room with a flu that had become pneumonia, and then slipped into septic shock. These two events and their aftermath are the primary focus of the book.Early on in “Magical Thinking,” Didion declares that “the way I write is who I am, or have become...
...highlight that development as an indication that Iraq is headed toward democracy. And while the Bush team took strong criticism for not being adequately prepared for a hurricane and flooding in New Orleans that numerous government reports had predicted, they're actively preparing for another possible disaster: a bird flu that is feared as a foreshadowing of a pandemic. Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is traveling in East Asia this week to coordinate international response to a possible spread of the flu, which has already killed about 60 people and millions of birds in that region...
Since 1997, the H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus has traveled steadily west across Asia. The current outbreak began in December 2003, infecting humans in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. Although Southeast Asia has borne the brunt of the disease, scientists fear that infected migratory birds will spread it further, resulting in a global pandemic...