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POPSWorld Killing Flu Closer Than Most Think Pandemics don't just happen; humans play a strong role in their development. When a billion or so people all want to buy live poultry (ducks, geese and chickens) to celebrate Lunar New Year each February, they also create the conditions needed to "grow" a new form of flu and with a 60% probability, pandemic "killing" flu. New thinking is needed but governments are staying with rerunning the past and not getting out of the box to new solutions.
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POPSThe coming famine "In light of all these hurdles, as I see it, the challenge is to double world food output by 2050 using less land, far less water and fewer nutrients – all in the teeth of increasing rates of drought. And we need to do it sustainably." "I believe we are quite capable of solving these issues through good science and good policy. In the first instance, we need to massively increase global public investment in agricultural research and development. Then we need to make sure the fruits of that research reach farmers everywhere. I also think that commercial wild harvests, such as fishing and forestry, should be phased out in favour of sustainable farming that dovetails with the local environment."
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POPSFlu: One shot deal An attempt to find a flu shot that will protect for a lifetime is having some success. This shot <strike>will</strike> would protect not only against the annual flu but also against the pandemic flu varieties such as bird flu.
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POPSTB? MD's Seem to Have Forgotten Too - At Patient's Risk Duh! Cancer patients are more at risk because treatments often lower their immune system's abilities. So you would think managers of a cancer clinic would be more careful about screening for the spread of infectious diseases in their facilities. They are not immune from having short memories or assuming that they are doing everything they should be for their patient's safety, when in fact they need to regularly scan the horizon for new and old threats. Shameful!
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