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| Laurie Garrett International Herald Tribune SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2006 NEW YORK Despite the commitment of billions of dollars to the fight against pandemic influenza, the world may lose the battle against avian flu, for lack of an effective strategy. Much of the money - nearly $4 billion from U.S. taxpayers, alone - is being spent inappropriately. For far less money, strategically deployed in a global campaign, the world could be a safer place for the coexistence of man and microbe. H5N1 avian flu has reached Nigeria, Iran, Iraq, all the Black Sea nations and ... |
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| June 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bird flu fatalities have almost tripled this year as the lethal virus spread across Asia, Europe and Africa, prompting calls for increased supplies of medicines to fight the virus and any pandemic it might spawn. Since January, at least 54 people have died from the H5N1 avian influenza strain in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Djibouti, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq and Turkey, according to the World Health Organization. That compares with 19 fatalities in Vietnam and Cambodia in the first six months of 2005. Human cases create opportunity for the virus to mutate into a lethal pandemic form. |
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