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...People should not stop at the recommendations to stock up with food and water," says Monica Schoch-Spana, senior associate at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biosecurity. "Individuals should be calling the hospitals that they rely on and asking them, do you have a pandemic flu contingency plan in place? People need to start putting more pressure on the institutions that we rely on to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Disaster-Ready Are We? | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...Quarantines worked to control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.) That doesn't mean we won't have quarantines. "Politicians will be under a lot of pressure to demonstrate that they are doing something," says Monica Schoch-Spana, a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avian Flu: How Scared Should We Be? | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...Sierra Leone, I was given a road project in Bombali district. I Kriolized (after Krio, the Englishderived lingua franca of the country) my technical words--amma, c'ment, 'spana--dropped them expertly and waited for cheers and applause from my workers. Meanwhile, I read something called, "How to Build a Bridge," and I built one (I'm still laughing...

Author: By Louis Rapoport, | Title: Undefined Person Meets An Undefined Project | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

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