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QUESTIONS, ANSWERS: Bush's plan: Spend billions.

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| November 02, 2005 | Askari, Elilia | COPYRIGHT 2007 Detroit Free Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Emilia Askari

Nov. 2--President George W. Bush on Tuesday called for $7.1 billion in emergency spending to prepare the nation for a deadly flu pandemic.

The strategy was sparked by the threat of a bird flu outbreak that health experts have been predicting for more than a year. They say that flu pandemics occur periodically, and we are past due for one. In a speech at the National Institutes of Health, Bush asked Congress for money to, among other things:

--Buy 20 million doses of a recently developed bird flu vaccine by 2009. This vaccine wards off the current strain, not a mutated strain that would pass from human to human.

--Develop a faster method of producing vaccines for bird flu or any other disease.

--Buy 24 million…

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