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    Posted: January 18 2006 at 6:07pm

Clamping down on travel raises questions of balance (English)
  19.01.06 | By Martin Johnston |   Virtually closing down the country to control the spread of a bird flu pandemic might have "limited effectiveness", says a public health doctor. | Northland medical officer of health Dr Jonathan Jarman sa...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=82&Obj ectID=10364391

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Well, just how friggin' disruptive do they think a pandemic with NO attempts to slow transmission will be????  Is it just me or is this just about the most asinine things we have seen quoted so far?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=82&Obj ectID=10364391

That means the likely limited success of standard steps such as closing schools and other public gatherings and restricting travel "need to be balanced with the disruptive social and economic impacts of such measures".

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Guess they figure they can loose a few million people.. The guys saying this are the ones first in line for a vaccine.
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Good point Corn.  They are probably the same folks who believe that we (the teaming masses) just clutter up the scenery and could use a bit of a thinning.
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Brisk Holiday Travel in Asia (English)
 

HANOI, Vietnam, Jan. 26, 2006 — Despite fresh bird flu outbreaks among poultry and new human deaths, tourists are traveling en masse across Asia during the region's peak travel season ahead of the Chinese New Year.

"According to the figures from hotels, they've never known such a high occupancy rate," said Olivier Colomes, general director of Exotissimo Travel Group in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the country hardest-hit by avian influenza. "We were really scared about this because everybody was talking about the bird flu as if it would happen tomorrow, but so far nothing has happened." http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=1540073&page=1



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Money will always come before reason............

Tourism head warns against bird flu 'panic' (English)
Madrid - The secretary general of the World Tourism Organisation, Francesco Frangialli, warned on Tuesday that the tourism sector must not fall prey to "unecessary panic" about bird flu. | "There is no reason to give in to panic," Frangialli said as ...
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I wonder if anyone from WHO will travel when this goes H2H...or the CDC...
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Ever hear of the saying "Too many dollars and not enough sense?" I think that applies in this case!

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