Tests Confirm Bird Flu Found in Scotland
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1814685&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
LONDON Apr 6, 2006 (AP)— Britain confirmed its first case
of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in a wild swan on Thursday,
setting the stage for concerns the disease could spread
across the Atlantic.
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Donald Rumsfeld Makes $5m Killing on Bird Flu Drug
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350787.ece
Military prepares for possible pandemic
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-88785sy0mar19,0,1504840.story?coll=dp-news-local-final
Should a flu pandemic break out in the United States,
there's no question that the Defense Department and
likely local forces will play a role.
FDA Investigating Tamiflu Deaths in Children
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4447434.stm
Tamiflu Could Make Avian Flu Pandemic Worse
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10361216
WHO sends Tamiflu to Iraq after bird flu confirmed
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03158369.htm
Thailand claims success in producing own Tamiflu
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/88912.asp
U.S. joins others in preparing for the worst as flu fears loom
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/06/news/flu.php
President George W. Bush was greeted with blunt skepticism a
month ago, when he first mentioned the H5N1 strain of avian
flu at a White House news conference and suggested he might
need new authority over the military to enforce quarantines.
Cynics suggested that he was reaching for greater presidential
powers, or trying to distract attention from Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
Interview with Alexander M. Schmidt Commissioner of
Food and Drugs (1973 - 1976)
http://www.fda.gov/oc/history/oralhistories/schmidt/part4.html
The president, Gerry Ford, and Dave Sensor and I and Ted Cooper,
and then all of the great gods of virology were in the room and the
president was seeking their advice. Albert Sabin was there and
Jonas Salk was there. I kept my mouth shut at that meeting on purpose.
Dave Sensor carried the ball and laid this out and spelled out the horrors.
President Ford went around the room and asked everybody
around the room to speak up and give their advice. To a man,
everyone in the room, including Albert Sabin, said, "Yes, Mr. President,
there's a possibility, and you should have a massive immunization."
Everybody said it; it was unanimous. Now, the fact of the matter was
that when we walked out of the room, he walked into a press conference
and read a press release that had been written before the meeting.
So, in a way, it was a set-up.
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