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...this together. Sick pigs and sick people, a virus in Mexico and an infection in New Zealand--in a globalized world, microbial threats that seem far away can be on our doorstep in hours. "As a global community, we are only as strong as our weakest link," says the CDC's Besser. If we want to prevent the next pandemic--or at least survive it--we need to remember that...
...rapid spread of the H1N1 virus should convince us that biologically, we live in one world, sharing microbes between species and across borders. When it comes to crafting a global early-warning system equal to the challenges posed by new pathogens, we're only as strong as our weakest link, whether that's the lack of animal-disease surveillance in the U.S. or the less-than-ideal laboratory capacity in Mexico. "We have to break down the barriers between organizations and agencies," says Lubroth. "It's one world, one health...
...person. Once it reaches an urban environment in any country, your ability to contain it is pretty much nil. But your other point that countries need to beef up their public health capabilities around the world - definitely. We as a global community are only as strong as our weakest link...
...with those parties barred from running in the last election, this is the first time in modern history that there are no pro-ETA groups in parliament. That fact, coupled with the knowledge that ETA is at what is widely considered to be its weakest point in history, may enable López to capitalize on new talk of a negotiated peace. "Sooner or later, we're going to achieve what all of us - nationalist or non-nationalist - want, which is that things calm down in the Basque Country," says Landaburu, himself a victim of ETA's terrorism. "Maybe this...
Jack Dorsey, the founder and chairman of Twitter, sees no reason why Iraqis cannot join the growing chorus of global "tweets" appearing on computers and cell phones worldwide every day. "We've always been focused on making sure that the lowest common denominator, the weakest technology, still has a voice," said Dorsey, who was in Baghdad this week with a delegation of high-tech executives at the invitation of the State Department. Cellphone-carrying Iraqis, Dorsey said, could utilize Twitter applications on their current mobiles for a range of things, even without broadband Internet connections, which are still in short...