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...strategy is a variation on what's called herd immunity - the idea that even if you can't vaccinate an entire population, you can achieve nearly complete disease control by vaccinating at least the overwhelming portion of it. That's because every inoculated person serves as a sort of firebreak against the virus; surround the disease with enough people who are immune to its spread, and it simply winks out, never reaching the few people who still aren't immune. The Science study offers a chance to get a kind of herd immunity on the cheap by inoculating the super...
...California FIRE WITH FIRE A firefighter uses a flare to light a firebreak as hundreds of blazes crackled across Northern California, scorching about 570 sq. mi. (1,475 sq km) of land and threatening the tourist enclave of Big Sur. With the weather expected to remain dry, officials said some of the wildfires could burn for months. Devastating fires last October caused more than $1 billion in damage...
...years later, Gigot lambasted Summers for failing to anticipate the currency crisis that rocked East Asian economies. “Mr. Summers...helped to kill an all-Asia rescue that might have been an early firebreak,” Gigot wrote. “But this would have prevented Mr. Summers from playing the role of a modern ‘Gen. Douglas MacArthur’ in Asia...though this is unfair to MacArthur, who had a smaller...
Deborah Daly, 27, a seasonal fire fighter for the California department of forestry, worked twelve days straight. "I'm not in bad shape, but I'm getting tired," she said, echoing the sentiments of many of her colleagues. After she helped her team dig an emergency firebreak around a threatened house, said Daly, "I thought my arms were going to fall off. But it felt great. Saving houses is a fantastic feeling...
...loss to bear in comparison to the losses of slaughtered animals and the disruption of the countryside. After all, tourism is a far bigger earner for Britain than agriculture. So the government is contemplating inoculating animals in areas surrounding points where the disease has occurred, to create a firebreak. But they first want to persuade the farmers that this is the right course of action...