You know, it is stories like this one that make me glad the Republicans who run our govenment consistently choose irresponsible tax cuts over, say, strengthening our public health system.
A pandemic of human influenza could kill up to 100 million people around the world, a World Health Organization official said today, significantly raising the agency's earlier estimates of the number of deaths in such a catastrophe.Hope may not be a plan, but that's really all we have right now against a possible avian flu pandemic.
As Lindsay Beyerstein writes over on her Majikthise blog: "As a rule, I pay close attention to stories that include the phrase "The W.H.O. does not want to scare the planet, but..."
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