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Though the poll shows waning public concern about getting sick, Stephen C. Redd, director of the Influenza Coordination Unit for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautioned against complacency...
...Rates of H1N1 disease are lower than they were in October and November, but the virus is still circulating and many people remain susceptible to disease,” Redd wrote in an e-mailed statement. “People who are not vaccinated should get vaccinated...
...professional side, we are hoping that [H1N1] can be put on the back burner,” Rosenthal said, though he echoed Redd in advising continued vigilance and personal hygiene...
...rebuts this. Ulu Masen borders another protected area called Leuser, also being developed as a REDD scheme, so leakage is not an issue within Aceh province. (The rest of Sumatra is another matter.) As for permanence, FFI has a "reserve pool" of forest to replace any lost to fire or disease, and promises "robust" accounting methods and monitoring by both satellite and field team. It says the calculations in the Gaveau report are incorrect and that Ulu Masen has "substantial lowland forests at risk...
...Politics of Climate Change Greenpeace wants wealthy industrialized nations to pay into a U.N.-run REDD fund that would protect priority areas of deforestation in Indonesia, Congo and the Amazon. A $40 billion - a-year fund "could get us to zero deforestation by 2020 - globally," says Kessler. But will rich nations cough up that much? The U.S., the E.U. and Japan are all "willing to put money on the table" for REDD, he adds. "Just to put it into perspective, $40 billion is about a quarter of what the U.S. gave in bailout funds to one insurance company...