Travel bans won�t stop bird flu: study

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Travel bans won't stop bird flu: study

Tue Apr 4, 2006 8:19 AM ET

Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Travel restrictions and school closures will do little to stop a pandemic of bird flu from marching across the United States, but they may slow it enough to distribute drugs and vaccines, according to a new study published on Monday.

"It's probably not going to be practical to contain a potential pandemic by merely trying to limit contact between people such as by travel restrictions, quarantine or even closing schools," said Timothy Germann of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, who worked on the report."

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	Travel bans won't stop bird flu: study Tue Apr 4, 2006 8:19 AM ET Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Travel restrictions and school closures will do little to stop a pandemic of bird flu from marching across the United States, but they may slow it enough to distribute drugs and vaccines, according to a new study published on Monday. "It's probably not going to be practical to contain a potential pandemic by merely trying to limit contact between people such as by travel restrictions, quarantine or even closing schools," said Timothy Germann of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, who worked on the report." EXCERPT http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-04-04T121916Z_01_N03329722_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-USA.xml&archived=False