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In the president's request for $7.1 billion to prepare the U.S. for a flu pandemic, one senses his desire not to be blamed--as he was following Hurricane Katrina--for events largely beyond his control.(The Week)(Brief article)

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In the president's request for $7.1 billion to prepare the U.S. for a flu pandemic, one senses his desire not to be blamed-as he was following Hurricane Katrina--for events largely beyond his control. But the truth is that no political leader can do much to stop avian flu--which, so far, has killed fewer than 100 people--from mutating into a form easily transmissible among human beings. The good news is that, if that happened, the existence of modern medicine would probably prevent a pandemic as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 25 to 50 million people worldwide. The bad news is that the Bush proposal wouldn't be of much help: It would stockpile an existing vaccine against bird flu, but, according to a study by the National ...

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