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Winter in the Northern Hemisphere means one chilling prospect for global??health officials: it's bird-flu season. Nine countries have announced outbreaks in recent weeks, and a replay of 2006--when H5N1 killed 80 people and spread to the Middle East and Africa--could well be on the way. In an effort to stay ahead of the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday said it is giving $132.5 million to makers of bird-flu vaccines that rely on immune-system boosters called adjuvants. "In the event of an influenza pandemic," said HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt...
...necessarily. Last year the global??insurance industry paid out a record $49 billion in claims, including $23 billion for U.S. hurricane damage, according to the reinsurance firm Swiss Re. There is plenty of money sloshing around the global- insurance pool to handle Katrina claims, and the Federal Government will pick up the tab for flood damage. One concern for consumers is that many insurers, facing hurricane-related claims, may pull out of the state, setting off a homeowner scramble for new policies. Only a month after state regulators approved a 21% rate hike, Nationwide Insurance announced that it wouldn...
...If global??warming is real, experts have been saying for decades, then basic climate science dictates that it should show up earliest and proceed most rapidly in the Arctic. But even the experts were stunned at the results of a study released last week. After four years of intensive research by more than 250 scientists, a prestigious multinational body called the Arctic Council reported that the region has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the globe over the past 50 years. Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk by as much as 20%, snow cover has diminished on land...
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