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MAR/APR 2006
VOL 27 No. 2
FEATURES:
Plague and Profit: Business, Bureaucracy and Cover-up in the Spread of Avian Flu in Asia
by Mike Davis
Fowl Play: The Role of Agribusiness in the Avian Flu Crisis
by Devlin Kuyek
Migratory Birds as Scapegoats: The Role of Wild Birds in Spreading Avian Flu
by Dr. Leon Bennun
Questions and Answers on Bird Flu from the CDC
INTERVIEWS:
Preventing Pandemic: The Global Strategy to Stop a Bird Flu Pandemic Before It Starts (Or Control It, If It Does)
An Interview with David Nabarro
At Risk: The dangers of an Eroded Public Health System
An Interview with Irwin Redlener
The Sky May Not Be Falling: An Eminent Scientist's Cautious View on Bird Flu Anxiety
An Interview with Edwin Kilbourne
Stopping Spread Among Poultry
An Interview with Alex Theirmann
The Tamiflu Manufacturing Controversy
An Interview with Yusuf Hamied
DEPARTMENTS:
Behind the Lines
Editorial The Political Economy of Bird Flu
The Front
Great Bear Rainforest Story -- Dirty Halliburton
The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award
Names In the News
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GRAIN
Girona 25, pral.
E-08010, Barcelona
SPAIN
[email protected]
www.grain.org
BirdLife International
Wellbrook Court Girton Road
Cambridge CB3 0NA
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.birdlife.org
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND
Email: [email protected]
www.who.org
www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/index.html
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
12, rue de Prony
75017 Paris
FRANCE
E-mail: [email protected]
www.oie.int
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
ITALY
E-mail: [email protected]
www.fao.org
www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/health/diseases-cards/special_avian.html
Centers for Disease Control
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
www.cdc.gov/flu/avian
Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine
5100 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20016
E-mail: [email protected]
www.pcrm.org
Focus on the Global South
CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University, Wisit Prachuabmoh Building
Bangkok-10330
THAILAND
E-mail: [email protected]
www.focusweb.org
National Center for
Disaster Preparedness
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
722 West 168th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10032
www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu
Roche
Grenzacherstrasse 124
CH-4070 Basel
SWITZERLAND
www.roche.com
Gilead
333 Lakeside Drive
Foster City, CA 94404
E-mail: [email protected]
www.gilead.com
Cipla
Cipla Ltd., Mumbai Central
Mumbai 400 008
INDIA
www.cipla.com
Consumer Project on Technology
1621 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 500
Washington, DC 20009
www.cptech.org
www.cptech.org/ip/health/tamiflu/index.html
Trust for America�s Health
1707 H Street, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
http://healthyamericans.org
Infectious Disease
Society of America
66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 600
Alexandria, VA 22314
E-mail: [email protected]
www.idsociety.org
Food and Water Watch
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 225
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.foodandwaterwatch.org
Council on Foreign Relations
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
www.cfr.org
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
University of Minnesota
Academic Health Center
420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 263
Minneapolis, MN 55455
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cidrap.umn.edu
The Center for Biosecurity
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The Pier IV Building
621 East Pratt Street, Suite 210
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
www.upmc-biosecurity.org
American Public Health
Association
800 I Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.apha.org
Humane Society
of the United States
2100 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
www.hsus.org
ForestEthics
One Haight Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94102
E-mail: [email protected]
www.forestethics.org
Greenpeace
250 Dundas Street West, Suite 605
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z5
CANADA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.greenpeace.org
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ran.org
Halliburton Watch
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.halliburtonwatch.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
5 Boulevard du Roi Albert II, Bte 1
1210 Brussels
BELGIUM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.icftu.org
Organic Consumers Association
6771 South Silver Hill Drive
Finland, MN 55603
www.organicconsumers.org
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cspinet.org
Center for Responsible Lending
910 17th Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
www.responsiblelending.org
ETC Group
431 Gilmour Street, Second Floor,
Ottawa, ON K2P 0R5
CANADA
www.etcgroup.org
Center for Media and Democracy
520 University Avenue, Suite 227
Madison, WI 53703
E-mail: [email protected]
www.prwatch.org
Free Press
100 Main Street, P.O. Box 28
Northampton, MA 01061
www.freepress.net
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The Monster at Our Door:
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
By Mike Davis
New York: The New Press, 2005
Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not
Prepared for Megadisasters and
What We Can Do
By Irwin Redlener
New York, Knopf, 2006
The Great Influenza: The Epic
Story of the Deadliest Plague
In History
By John M. Barry
New York: Viking Adult, 2004
America�s Forgotten Pandemic:
The Influenza of 1918
By Alfred W. Crosby
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
By Gina Kolata
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
The Devil�s Flu: The World�s Deadliest
Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific
Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
By Pete Davies
New York: Owl Books, 2000
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of
Global Public Health
By Laurie Garrett
New York: Hyperion, 2000
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging
Diseases in a World Out of Balance
By Laurie Garrett
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994
Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know
About the Next Pandemic
By Marc Siegel
Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2006
The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner
By Grattan Woodson
Deerfield Beach, Florida: HCI, 2005
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness
Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment
Edited by Fred Magdoff,
John Bellamy Foster and
Frederick H. Buttel
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000
The Great Bear Rainforest:
Canada�s Forgotten Coast
By Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books for Children, 1998
The Halliburton Agenda:
The Politics of Oil and Money
By Dan Briody
Hoboken, New Jersey:
John Wiley & Sons, 2004
Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the
Rise of Texas, America�s Superstate
By Robert Bryce
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004
Food Politics: How the Food Industry
Influences Nutrition and Health
By Marion Nestle
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2002
Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the
Fringe Economy
By Howard Karger
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005
Merchants of Misery: How Corporate
America Profits From Poverty
Edited by Michael Hudson
Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1996
�Internationally Core Labour Standards
in the People�s Republic of China,�
By the International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions
April 2004 - Available at:
www.idftu.org/www/pdf/clschinacor2006.pdf
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