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...near at hand, flu has transferred from ducks to all three species?and once established, it can swap back and forth between its different new hosts with devastating effect. The virus survives and thrives by constantly mutating?so that just as our immune systems recognize and kill off one strain, a new one emerges against which our defenses don't work. Most are minor adaptations, the product of genetic "drift." Every now and then, however, something more dramatic occurs: a genetic "shift." Also termed "a reassortment event," this is the creation of a wholly new strain with genetic elements taken...
...seem like this $1.2 billion transfer was a $1.2 billion increase in funding for homeland security. After this fiscal sleight of hand, the President provided only 71 percent of the funding increase he had promised. The Administration’s failure to provide adequate funding has put serious strain on local departments. As one Massachusetts police officer told the Boston Globe, the same officers are now expected to do more work for the same pay, even as the threats they face grow larger...
...strain is showing. Military police whose voluntary enlistments are up have had their terms extended--involuntarily--for a year. Many earn less money while in uniform. (Echols' public-school employer makes up the shortfall, but he estimates that only half his troops are as lucky as he is.) And spouses can be left to tackle alone an overwhelming home life. Echols' wife Denise, who is studying to be a nurse, will have to take care of three kids--ages 8, 4 and 9 months--after he ships out. That's why, when her husband comes home, she plans...
...Speed and accurate information are critical in defeating such outbreaks, and critics say Beijing's silence has had deadly consequences. In 1997, when a previously unknown strain of avian influenza killed nine in Hong Kong, the government's swift move to quarantine patients and cull more than a million chickens was widely credited with halting the spread of the disease. The risks of an uncontrolled viral outbreak are catastrophically high: with its tens of millions of pigs, poultry and people living in close proximity, southern China has long been one of the world's most lethal breeding grounds for killer...
That event, unlike the earlier protest, was designed to ease a strain on a community divided by politics...