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A 5 page overview of the problems being confronted with bird flu. The author reviews the social impacts of the H5N1 virus and comments on the ethics of vaccine production. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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Avian flu has the potential to kill millions the world over.
In the past Avian Flu has been restricted to animals in Southeast Asia and a few human infections in that region (Pugh, 2005). Although the number of humans that
have fell victim to the disease is now quite low even in Southeast Asia, 133 infections and 68 deaths, these numbers could rapidly escalate not just in Southeast Asia but
elsewhere as well (Pugh, 2005). In Japan this virus first reappeared at a chicken farm in 2004 after having been absent for seventy-nine years (Inoue, 2004). Everywhere the
virus appears it presents a threat not just to the avian population but to the human population as well. Biotechnology plays both a
positive role and a negative role in this potential epidemic. Agricultural practices that produce large number of chickens and other fowl and raise them in densely packed areas, for
example, is a factor in the potential for the large-scale breakout of this virus (Inoue, 2004). Biotechnology is also important, however, in addressing this virus. Japan, in particular,
has played a prominent role in the research on this disease and in the production of means to address it. Pharmaceutical companies have
finally produced two vaccines that could halt the spread of the H5N1 to humans. Whereas previously one of these vaccines (Tamiflu, otherwise known as oseltamivir) was limited in the
quantity that could be produced because it depended on a spice (star anise) grown primarily in China to produce the critical acid employed in the drug, Japan developed a fermentation
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