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...world health organization (WHO) representative on pandemic influenza, Dr. David Heymann has one of the most important jobs in medicine: coordinating international preparations for a possible virus outbreak that could threaten millions of lives. That job got much harder on Feb. 7, when Indonesia announced it had stopped sharing with the WHO the samples of H5N1 avian-flu virus it had isolated. Simultaneously, Jakarta announced an agreement with U.S. drug company Baxter International, which will develop a vaccine from the strains and give Indonesia technical assistance in manufacturing it. For 50 years, the WHO has received free influenza-virus samples...
...Still, Heymann concedes, the Indonesians have a point. This nation of 245 million has suffered more fatalities from bird flu than any other country, with its 63rd victim dying Jan. 19. Yet, if a pandemic does arise, Indonesia might well be one of the last in line to receive a vaccine: most of the world's limited production capacity is already spoken for by wealthier nations. A recent article in the British medical journal the Lancet predicted that if the next pandemic were to be as deadly as the 1918 flu, 96% of its estimated 62 million victims would come...
...figure out exactly what my docket is going to be,” she said. “I’ve been focusing in the national security world for so long, that focusing on the state stuff is new.” Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, who co-authored the book “Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror” with Kayyem, praised her qualifications for the post, saying “she’ll do a better job of it than anybody else in Massachusetts...
...Ames professor of law, Philip B. Heymann, said Wednesday that on-the-scene arrests ought not to be used so frequently, but that they are commonplace...
...Heymann, who focused more on the lack of safeguards built into the program than on the merits of the program itself, concluded that “published standards for any investigative step do not necessarily provide any useful information to terrorists” and that “there are far better ways to reduce the threat” of terrorism than to support every program that marginally reduces the risk of an attack...