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...place could spread around the world in 24 hours--but it also gives us the tools to form an effective defense. "The fact that the world is one continuous village now means viruses that would have gone extinct before have the potential to take hold much more rapidly," says Nathan Wolfe, director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI). "But it also means we can create a planetary immune system...
Leverett House: William K. Chen, Marina Fisher, Matthew J. Hall, Alana I. Mendelsohn, Noah L. Nathan, Yuliya S. Nikolova, Michael L. Schachter, Adam R. Singerman, David J. Tischfield, Sara K. Trowbridge, Jarret A. Zafran
...Exactly how they would [lift the ban] through national AIDS strategy, I don't know," says Nathan Schaefer, director of public policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis...
...global panic subsides, scientists will focus on figuring out how to ward off the next emerging disease before it lands on our doorstep. "Now is the time to take the actions needed to prevent this," says Nathan Wolfe, director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, which looks for new pathogens emerging from wildlife. One way to start would be to trace how, when and where the H1N1 virus emerged from pigs into people (or vice versa - over the weekend, Canada confirmed reports that a swine worker in Alberta passed the H1N1 virus to pigs). The H1N1 virus contains human, avian...
...enough positive information." Speed, he adds, is the second priority. "Yes, we have to check and coordinate information, but this does not mean we can justify not being on time." But with violence worse than ever and elections scheduled for late August, words are getting cheaper. "Ultimately," says Joanna Nathan, a Kabul-based analyst and author of the Crisis Group report, "cleaning up the government and proving that life is better is more important than talking about...