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Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the House; John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide and The Great Influenza...
...including flamingos, if H5N1 enters the country. WORLD CUP Soccer fans were shaken last week when the German media relayed doubts over the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany. Both Bärbel Höhn, the Greens' agricultural expert, and Klaus Stöhr, head of the WHO influenza program, were reported to have said cancellation would be considered if mass cases of human influenza occurred in Germany...
...scientific information: who officials say they have so far seen nothing to indicate that the Turkish victims contracted bird flu from other people, the potential nightmare that could lead to a pandemic. Virologists at the National Institute for Medical Research (nimr) in London, which is home to the World Influenza Centre, analyzed the sequence of genes in the h5n1 virus that killed the Kocyigits. They found the structure of those genes was very similar to that found in the avian version. But nimr director and influenza expert John Skehel says he has also found a worrisome protein change...
Anxiety about avian flu is spreading far faster than the disease. Watch enough 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...
...Health Statistics (NCHS). Nowak, however, maintains that this increase in population accounts was one of the reasons for the 2003 increase. John Abramson, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Medical School who provided some guidance throughout Doshi’s research, said the “public information about influenza is driving people towards remedies [like flu vaccines] that may not be very effective.” David S. Rosenthal, director of University Health Services, said that it did not matter what the final cause of death was as long as flu, often a secondary cause of death, could...