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...Tuesday the WHO will convene a special panel that could begin the process of declaring an official end to the pandemic. "We hope that the worst is behind us and the overall trend will be going down," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's special adviser to the director-general for pandemic influenza, in a Feb. 18 press conference. (See what you need to know about the H1N1 vaccine...
...pandemic is that the virus does not appear to spread easily among people. It has been transmitted between humans only in rare cases, usually among family members in close conditions. But the fear has long been that if bird flu genetically mixed with human flu - in a process called reassortment, in which two flu viruses swap genes in an infected cell - it could create a new strain that is both deadly and transmissible, as illustrated by the new PNAS study. That's how many past pandemic viruses, including 2009 H1N1, were created, leading to new strains to which humans have...
...allow the slightest grounds for the Iraq people's rule over their country and turns this country into a medieval colony for America," wrote Hossein Shariatmadari in the influential Iranian newspaper Kayhan. While the peace between Egypt and Israel has held, the stutter stop of the U.S.-brokered peace process has lasted decades; the "comprehensive peace" Carter, Sadat and Menachem Begin hoped for remains unrealized. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...past few months, mainstream analysts in the U.S. have dared to think what, for the past three decades, has been nigh on unthinkable: that Washington should withdraw from the peace process until the Palestinians and Israelis invite them back and decide finally to get serious. "It's time for a radically new approach," wrote the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last November. "I mean something no U.S. Administration has ever dared to do: take down our PEACE-PROCESSING IS US sign and just go home...
...like one of Coudreaut's failures, a breakfast Snack Wrap made with a crepe that held vanilla cream cheese and fruit. ("Why it didn't work is because we served it cold," Coudreaut says. "We serve hot food. Even our salads, we serve warm chicken on top.") The testing process is painstaking: it took two years for the Angus Third Pounders, the company's first new burger in eight years, to get on the menu...