From Carl Zimmer, writing on NYTimes.com, an excerpt from Amateurs Are New Fear in Creating Mutant Virus: Just how easy is it to make a deadly virus? This disturbing question has been on the minds of many scientists recently, thanks to a pair of controversial experiments in which the H5N1 bird flu virus was transformed [...]
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From Dr. Tadataka Yamada’s “Poverty, Wealth, and Access to Pandemic Influenza Vaccines” in N.E.J.M (link is to free full-text article): On June 11, 2009, Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared that the status of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic had reached phase 6 — active transmission on a global scale. [...]
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From the NY Daily News: From Erin Einhorn and Meredith Kolodner Swine Flu forces city officials to close 5 more schools in Queens : Five more schools inside three buildings in Queens will be closed Monday after dozens more students came down with flu symptoms, officials said Sunday. wall street: money never sleeps dvd download [...]
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For the lion’s share of urgent posts here – reports about contemporaneous threats – I;m lucky to have good acccess to a number of physicians, medical personnel epidemiologists and other informants. But the single most useful resource is the blog The Pump Handle What’s more, Liz Borkowski and Celeste Monforton, two of the Pump Handle [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
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