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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
Quick action may head off global epidemic:
BANGKOK — After poring over old medical records, studying census data and cranking out mathematical models, scientists and health officials are beginning to believe they have a chance to stop a bird flu pandemic before it kills millions of people worldwide.
The key: detecting an outbreak early and rushing powerful antiviral drugs to the source to throttle a pandemic at birth before it can bust out of Southeast Asia, carrying sickness and death around the globe. “It is the first time in the history of mankind that anyone has thought about keeping a worldwide pandemic at bay,” says William Aldis, the top World Health Organization (WHO) official in Thailand.
And earlier today I posted about an anti-ebola vaccine that’s showing promise. We don’t always notice, but there are a lot of good things happening.
