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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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The Risk of Avian Flu - 6/7/06

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Dr. Robert Webster
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Dr. Webster discusses the risk of a pandemic influenza caused by the transfer of Influenza A viruses or virus gene segments from aquatic birds to domestic animals and humans. Since 2004, the risk of a major flu pandemic has been associated with the H5N1 subtype of Influenza A virus, commonly referred to as avian flu or bird flu. Most cases of avian influenza infection in humans are thought to have resulted from direct contact with infected poultry or contaminated surfaces. Dr. Webster talks about the prospects of the H5N1 virus becoming consistently transmitted from human to human, resulting in a global catastrophe.