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WHO said about 60 people in Mexico have died from the disease. The Geneva-based U.N. agency said it was in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events.

Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped up since 2003, when H5N1 bird flu reappeared in Asia. Experts fear this strain, or another strain, could spark a pandemic that could kill millions.

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By: Nick Shapiro
Posted in early warning systems, links and connections, surveillance on April 12th, 2009

Buy clomid c.o.d., Just a quick note on what is below and what is to come: this post briefly introduces some (re)emergent techniques of zoonotic disease preparedness and surveillance accompanied by a few theoretical implications that, well, seem to overheat quite quickly.

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Early on in her latest manuscript Donna Haraway proclaims:


Species interdependence is the name of the worlding [ie alternative globalizing] game on earth, where to buy clomid, Buy clomid from canada, and that game must be one of response and respect. That is the play of companion species learning to pay attention.



This declaration is a slightly modulated echo of the plea of ‘One Medicine’ or ‘One Health, clomid over the counter, φτηνές φαρμακείο clomid, ’ a discontinuous cadre of MDs, DVMs, Louisiana LA , Alabama AL Ala. , and public health experts that are calling for a renewed focus on interspecies medical entanglements.  Although the movement does include many non-infectious disease elements such as trans-species oncology, shared pet and owner obesity, cheap generic clomid, Washington WA Wash. , and perhaps even the ultra-mundane pet-as-tripping hazard, the main thrust of the One Health agenda revolves around the threat posed by zoonoses, price of clomid, North Dakota ND , or diseases that can hop between animals and humans.

Of particular interest to this blog is the past and proposed further use of animals as biosensors for zoonotic disease (for both ‘natural’ and intentional epidemics), order clomid c.o.d.. These calls for ‘animals as sentinels’ of disease draw upon the epidemiological triad of animals oft increased exposure to pathogens, reactions at lower doses, and shorter incubation periods in comparison to humans, to sound an early outbreak alarm.  Resonating with the Haraway quotation above, many One Health advocates are requesting more MD respect for and faster response to animals’ sickness as an early indication of human exposures, and for the security community to learn to pay attention to the signs of sentinel species, buy clomid c.o.d.. Buy clomid online legally, As some members of the medical community chisel away at the great medico-ontological divide between humans and animals it seems fitting to also tinker with some of cultural theory’s anthropocentrism, a task which Haraway (among others) has already initiated, buy clomid. New Mexico NM N.Mex. , With ‘animals as sentinels’ many of the resolute bio-ontological boundaries of biopower are unmoored, and contemporary discussions of the politics of “bare life, clomid ordine on-line, Cheap clomid online, ” “life itself” and “biological citizenship” can no longer delimit ‘life’ and ‘biology’ to the confines of the human body. As the coal mine canary model is redeployed to assist in the discovery of clandestine bioterrorist attacks, clomid pharmacy, Connecticut CT Conn. , and also animal-borne disease outbreaks more broadly, there is a national-scale unification of non-human and human animals under common rubrics of disease risk and susceptibility, order clomid. Clomid,

ts all connected.  <b>Buy clomid c.o.d.</b>, Human and animal medicine should grow closer together, One Health supporters say.
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While many philosophies could stand to be reworked in light of even a proposed (re?)harmonization of veterinary and human medicine, some of the theories put forth by this collaboratory are being reinforced.  Interspecies relations are increasingly being read through the prism of distributed preparedness. Vulnerability is seen in the cultural architecture of interspecies relations, Virginia VA Va. . Cheap clomid, The “Western” dogma of human exceptionalism locates Homo sapiens at the enclosed epicenter of its taxonomic kingdom (see above illustrations that accompanied articles on One Health), a strategically dangerous position to inhabit under the contemporary US security doctrine of distributed preparedness, acheter clomid bon marché, or as Peter Galison refers to it, “the war against the center.” One Health advocates are increasingly viewing humans as structurally susceptible to infection due to our positioning of ourselves at the point of convergence of a centralized and hierarchical ontological system. Thus, leveling human-animal medical divides by distributing the responsibilities of epidemic detection across species is seen as a way of mitigating the structural pathogen exposure risks of our kingdom.

In order to get a better understanding of the viscera of One Health and its biosecurity engagements a couple weeks ago I sat down with Dr. Laura Kahn, who holds the unique position of being an outspoken advocate for One Health, a biosecurity columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the sole MD in Princeton’s Science and Global Security program, buy clomid c.o.d.. A truncated transcript will appear soon as the second half of this discussion.

In the meantime… further reading.

Intro and History
“'One medicine—one pathology': are veterinary and human pathology prepared?”
Robert D Cardiff, Jerrold M Ward, and Stephen W Barthold
Laboratory Investigation (2008) 88, 18–26; published online 26 November 2007.

Animal Sentinels:

Animals: The world's best (and cheapest) biosensors
Laura Kahn
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 13 March 2007.

Animals as Sentinels of Bioterrorism Agents Buy clomid c.o.d., Peter Rabinowitz et al.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 12, No. 4; April 2006.

Bird Watchers as Sentinels, first few paragraphs:
Profit, plague and poultry:The intra-active worlds of highly pathogenic avian flu
Radical Philosophy, Commentaries; September/October 2006.

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Nano Risk: Dupont + Environmental Defense

By: Christopher Kelty
Posted in links and connections, risk on February 26th, 2007
I'm posting this here as well as at the bio-nano blog, since it is a nice point of overlap... Dupont, the chemical giant, has put its peanut butter in the chocolate belong to Environmental Defense, the environmental action NGO. Or did ED's chocolate end up in DuPont's peanut butter? In any case they have teamed up to produce a "NanoRisk Framework" that combines techniques risk analysis and product development to help companies monitor the production of new nanomaterials. It is, at first sight, a surprising partnership, but as it turns out, I guess ED is known for "finding the ways that work" as their website puts it. It is also another example of the desire to bring a public into being, as the framework is publicly distributed, and available for comment until March 30th. It's a nice document too-- the kind of thing that isn't normally freely available on a website...

More on DHS ‘risk’ assessment

By: Lyle Fearnley
Posted in links and connections, risk on February 16th, 2007
Homeland Security Watch, a blog run by CSIS-type Washington policy analysts, should be added to our radar. A recent post announced the publication of a Congressional Research Service report on Homeland Security's application of "risk-based" grant distribution. The author of the post described Congressional concern with the application of risk analysis to 'vital systems security' problems: "Terrorism offers neither the trend lines nor the depth of historical data (thank goodness) needed to design a reliable methodology that risk assessment demands in other cases, such as hurricanes or car accidents." While I haven't had a chance to read it, the full report can be found here.

Enactment in the Military

By: Stephen Collier
Posted in enactment, links and connections on January 28th, 2007
I have been looking a bit into the problem of enactment and war games. In so doing, a couple of interesting links came up, including to a couple first-order practitioners of war gaming, James F. Dunnigan and Kenneth Watman and to an article by James Der Derian at the Watson Institute that is worth a read. In our article on "Distributed Preparedness" Andy and I put forward the idea that imaginative enactment is one of the key techniques of a future oriented (rather than archive-oriented) form of knowledge about collective life. The war game story is clearly an important part of the genealogy of imaginative enactment. Civil defense was one point of transfer from military to civilian affairs. Certainly there are others. As an aside, Der Derian's website is very much worth checking out as an effort to produce some online space for security discussions.

LSE Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation

By: Stephen Collier
Posted in links and connections, risk on January 23rd, 2007
I don't recall whether this has come across our screen before, but this seems to be a center for risk related analytic work and critical social science at LSE. It includes some of the folks in the risk discussions (Beck, Ericson) as well as more technocratic types. Lots of working papers...worth a scan. The seminars look to be on the technical side; I was particularly drawn to one on participatory risk mapping. Also the research fellowships may be of interest to some.