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...like. Suddenly Sharon had positioned himself to the left, and also to the right, of the traditional Israeli parties. "It was a perfect reflection of the country's mood," says David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "After 40 years of occupying the territories, people are sick and tired of it. They don't want to have anything to do with Palestinians. They were going to give Sharon a big victory in the [March 28] elections. If he plays his cards right, Olmert may win a smaller but still significant victory, too, because unilateral disengagement is what...
...chicken is more than just a bird. For the hardscrabble villagers, it's often the only source of dietary protein, and for their children, the only toy. So it was no surprise that 15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit and her 14-year-old brother Mehmet Ali played with the sick fowl their father had brought indoors for protection from the bitter December cold. The fun proved fatal. The children came down with high fevers and bleeding throats; when they went to a nearby hospital, they received ordinary medication for a cold and were sent home. A week later, when...
...eventually transmit bird flu to one another. But, he says, the protein mutation is "one of the things" that is required. Scientists are intrigued, however, by the cases of two young brothers hospitalized at the Kecioren Hospital in Ankara. They tested positive for the h5n1 virus after exposure to sick chickens, but have not shown symptoms of the disease. Nevertheless, they are now being treated with Tamiflu, one of the antiviral drugs with some capacity to fight avian flu. The who's Rodier thinks that the boys' parents probably became suspicious about possible exposure to the virus before the disease...
...officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government has made a special effort to educate the most vulnerable groups: a UNICEF-produced series of comic pamphlets warns rural children - who make up the majority of bird-flu cases - to stay away from chickens that appear sick. After surveillance, swift laboratory work is Step 2. Thailand's strong public-health system formed an innovative partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 2001 to launch the International Emerging Infections Program (IEIP). Under the program, Thailand has obtained advanced laboratory technology from the U.S., as well...
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...