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In the avian-flu scenario, 63% picked the treatment with the highest chance of death for themselves, with 49% recommending it for patients.
Physicians May Heal Themselves Differently Katherine Hobson 2011
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It's one thing to destroy a billion avian-flu chickens in Asia; it's quite another to ask Americans to surrender their pets, and many folks in that part of the country are armed.
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The Ministry of Agriculture and local agriculture officials said they have received no reports of avian-flu outbreaks in poultry in or around Beijing.
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For avian-flu watchers, the pandemic of 1918 shows what a new outbreak could mean for the world, but a study published by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may also offer lessons on how to contain avian flu.
Primary Sources 2007
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During the avian-flu scare of 2004, I read Daniel Defoe's fascinating "Journal of the Plague Years."
Free Kindle Stuffers 2009
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Across Asia, the SARS epidemic, combined with the looming threat of a potential avian-flu pandemic, "woke public health officials up to the risk of infectious diseases," said Peter Cordingley, a Manila-based spokesman for the World Health Organization.
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For avian-flu watchers, the pandemic of 1918 shows what a new outbreak could mean for the world, but a study published by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may also offer lessons on how to contain avian flu.
Primary Sources 2007
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The Telegraph's Sukhdev Sandhu on Sandman: "[T] he idea of evil as wispy and environmental has a certain resonance in this era of avian-flu panics."
GreenCine Daily: Spider-Man 3 and the previews of summer. 2007
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The CDC scientists discovered that the H1N1 virus had pieces of its RNA genetic material that matched a human flu first seen in New Caledonia in 1999, two swine types that had been circulating in Asia and Wisconsin for several years and an unknown avian-flu virus.
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For avian-flu watchers, the pandemic of 1918 shows what a new outbreak could mean for the world, but a study published by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may also offer lessons on how to contain avian flu.
Primary Sources 2007
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