Word: oshitani
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...birds have been culled in the ongoing effort to eradicate the outbreak; 40 million of Vietnam's 258 million total poultry population have been culled since the disease first emerged in late 2003. "They're definitely responding much better than this time last year," says Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, an avian-flu expert based at the WHO's Western Pacific regional office...
...influenza team. By the weekend, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were still studying the viral samples, trying to determine whether the virus had mutated significantly?or worse, reassorted with a human flu. The latter would be alarming, notes WHO avian-flu expert Dr. Hiroshi Oshitani, but it wouldn't automatically mean the virus had hit upon the right combination to start a pandemic...
...Disease Control and add isolation rooms to hospitals. Properly prepared health facilities are key in keeping a minor outbreak from becoming a big one?SARS spread most rapidly among medical workers. "Without the trauma in hospitals there would have been no major outbreak last time," says Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, the WHO regional adviser for communicable disease...
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