Flu in the Mass Media

SARS read in the backdrop of influenza

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"SARS, bears striking similarities to the disastrous 1918 influenza pandemic"

WSJ 2003

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SARS (mutation, new strain) & Bt possibility/prep
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But the world would be in a far worse position if the human and avian viruses swapped genes in a way that produced a hybrid that was viable, infectious and virulent -- and if that hybrid escaped or fell into the hands of would-be bioterrorists.

NYT 2005 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=913795161&Fmt=7&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD

LAT 2004

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Mother Nature as bioterrorist
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It's enough to make one wish: If only Al Qaeda, rather than Mother Nature, were the one threatening us with influenza. And what a shame that when it comes to biological threats, the human immune system, unlike U.S. policymakers, doesn't make such distinctions.

(Control of) Research on 1918 strain
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Poultry Slaughter, Live markets, unsanitary crowded conditions
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Military role
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Surveillance

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"But the potential loss of life should terrorists find a way to distribute infectious diseases in crowded cities is reason enough to go ahead with a national reportable disease law. Senator Chuck Hagel and Representative Lee Terry, both Republicans of Nebraska, plan to introduce legislation that would establish a list of infectious diseases like avian influenza that states must report to the Department of Homeland Security and create a commission that would set guidelines for collecting and reporting such information, including rules on protecting patient privacy."

LAT 2005 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=929190111&Fmt=7&clientId=1566&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Biosense WSJ 2006 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=999733391&Fmt=7&clientId=1566&RQT=309&VName=PQD

"Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing a similar -- but national -- electronic surveillance system called BioSense that is designed to help health officials spot an outbreak soon after infected people show up at emergency rooms. By the end of the year, BioSense is expected to link 250 hospitals in more than 30 cities to servers at the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. CDC officials will look at disease patterns in several major metropolitan areas at once. State and local health officials will be able to tap into the system to review data collected on symptoms and diagnoses of illnesses in their area."

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"That means that public health officials investigating, for example, a flu outbreak in poultry or in humans in a remote Asian or African village will be able to decide quickly whether to kill thousands of birds or to treat hundreds of potentially exposed people with expensive antiviral drugs."

Canadian ban NYT 2005 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=929767771&Fmt=7&clientId=1566&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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The federal government recognizes the importance of surveillance for infectious diseases that may represent a bioterrorist attack and has created programs to collect data without involving local or state government health officials. But unfortunately, it has done so without any legislative guidelines on how this data is to be collected or used.

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Like Dr. Shanley, physicians specializing in infectious diseases have been working to educate residents on the virus, hoping that they can forestall a panic.

On Monday, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman proposed a bill in Congress to establish a domestic and global network for avian flu surveillance among wild birds, creating a database for sharing information and pinpointing any mutations in flu. Calling it the Global Network for Avian Influenza Surveillance Act, Senator Lieberman proposed that $10 million be given annually for five years to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the project.

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Persons familiar with the planning cautioned that many of the investments in vaccines will take years to complete. Given the heightened concern, the plan emphasizes surveillance and containment of the disease, both overseas and in the U.S.

Preparedness politics

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Expanding an old weapon in the struggle against infectious disease, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has opened 10 new quarantine stations at major ports of entry in the past 18 months and plans to add several more in the coming year.

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Long-nurtured fears of big government -- traditionally equated with godless socialism -- have already blocked the creation of a national healthcare system capable of combating a pandemic.

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The vexing parallels between the current administration's approach to national health care (''The Perplexing Pandemic Flu Plan,'' editorial, Nov. 20), the war in Iraq, homeland security and...

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Threat politics
Washington Post 2005 http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:WPIW&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=10D5340763865088&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D6884C8DA6CD5B5 , Washington Post 2006 http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:WPIW&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1104050A528DE890&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D6884C8DA6CD5B5 ,
USA Today 2006 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/1007058951.html?dids=1007058951:1007058951&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+21%2C+2006&author=Anita+Manning&pub=USA+TODAY&edition=&startpage=D.9&desc=U.S.+expects+bird+flu+this+year+%3B+Presence+not+cause+for+panic%2C+agencies+stress , http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/1087046261.html?dids=1087046261:1087046261&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+1%2C+2006&author=Anita+Manning&pub=USA+TODAY&edition=&startpage=D.6&desc=New+virus+less+than+pandemic+%3B+Strain+created+from+human%2C+bird+flus+gives+science+another+gauge
, http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-07-18-flu-drugs-usat_x.htm , Xinhua 2004 http://www.china.org.cn/features/bird/2004-02/05/content_1086402.htm
"I think it's very important at this stage that we remain calm about worst-case scenarios," Mike Ryan, the WHO's chief of global epidemic response, said at an international emergency meeting in Rome on Wednesday.

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"Pandemic viruses aren't the only threat. Drug-resistant bacteria and terrorist attacks spreading anthrax, smallpox or other deadly substances are also big worries in Washington. The emerging consensus: Private drug makers have to be encouraged to produce more medicines protecting public health -- even as critics of the pharmaceutical industry are wary of handing it too many incentives.

WSJ 2006

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LAT 2005 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=821441981&Fmt=7&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Asia spread http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:WPIW&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=115D57426E211118&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D6884C8DA6CD5B5 ,
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NYT 2005 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=847936811&Fmt=7&clientId=1566&RQT=309&VName=PQD

''Any number of known and unknown viruses for which at present there is neither immunization nor cure are at this moment cooking in Asia and Africa, where they arise in hotbeds of densely intermingled human and animal populations,'' said Dr. Frist

WSJ 2006

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To counter the scary stories, Mr. Lobb pointedly calls the disease the "Asian bird flu," with the emphasis on Asian. He notes that the government is testing tens of thousands of wild birds to try to get an early warning of the virus's arrival in the U.S.

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To head off a global pandemic of avian flu, some scientists are advancing a novel strategy: that poultry workers and farmers in Asia get the same vaccine that Americans and Europeans are given to protect against conventional flu.

…The goal, these virologists say, is to keep the Asians from becoming ''mixing vessels'' for human and bird strains.

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Dim Sum Emergency: Bird Flu Trips Up Trade in Chicken Feet

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in East Asia, bird flu's stronghold

China/Asia critique: avian vaccine potential mutation, secrecy
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"Also, experts said, the task is likely to be overwhelming, because the Chinese eat about 14 billion chickens a year, so mass vaccinations would have to be repeated again and again, while the risk of the disease being reintroduced by migratory birds, in which it is now endemic, would be constant."

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China responds
to Orientalism, Xinhua 2004 http://www.china.org.cn/features/bird/2004-01/30/content_1085841.htm , http://www.china.org.cn/features/bird/2004-01/31/content_1085890.htm ,
http://www.china.org.cn/features/bird/2004-02/21/content_1087959.htm

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Capitalizing on flu
Village Voice 2005 http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-11-15/news/capitalizing-on-the-flu/