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Avoiding Quotes
The risk you can't do anything about feels scarier than the one you can. Washing your hands a lot, sneezing into your elbow, knowing that avoiding crowded places if there's a flu epidemic of any kind, those are applicable. They're emotionally reassuring in the face of some new threat. New threats are always scarier than ones we've lived with for a while. It's just their newness.
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Carefully Quotes
Science is publishing this study because it provides information necessary for developing drugs and vaccines that could help prevent another global flu pandemic. We carefully considered the implications of publishing this research and concluded that the knowledge we're gaining to potentially protect public health far outweighs the risk of working with this virus.
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According Quotes
Right now, we can make roughly 60 million doses domestically of a normal flu vaccine in a normal year, ... But according to recent research, the total amount of antigen required to immunize a person against H5N1 is four times as much as the total amount in a normal flu shot. In a pandemic, nearly everyone would need flu vaccines, but with the current version, we could immunize only 15 million Americans, just over 5% of the country.
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Animal Quotes
The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal and human hosts, increasing the chances it could evolve into a human pandemic virus. No one knows if this will happen, or when, so it is critical to prepare for a potential human flu pandemic at the same time that we are working to prevent the spread of avian flu in birds.
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Available Quotes
Despite the major threat to human health posed by these viruses, there was very little information available on the entire genomes of bird flu viruses. Now we're in a much better position to understand what makes these viruses tick. And that could help us learn how to control the avian influenza viruses that threaten humans.
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Bird Quotes
Anything that we don't treat seriously can be a problem, but panic is not the answer, ... In Asia, the bird flu is showing up primarily in people who have close contact with chickens. Either they have chickens living around their homes or they're running filthy facilities where chickens are not healthy and therefore more susceptible to the virus.
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Additional Quotes
Accelerated approval has allowed us to evaluate and approve Fluarix in record time so that we can make available additional safe and effective flu vaccines, ... I commend our Center for Biologics for taking extraordinary steps to help us be better prepared for both the upcoming and future flu seasons.
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Allowed Quotes
It is our understanding that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has allowed Ho Chi Minh City to retain its ban on poultry farming until February 2007 to ensure there is no recurrence of bird flu due to the lack of safety measures currently undertaken by the poultry industry in this region. We believe our system can be used as part of their safety measures and provide the ministry with enough information and assurances that once the ban is lifted, the possible infiltration of the deadly bird flu in poultry flocks can be detected and dealt with swiftly to avoid any further devastation.