Casa
Bianca : solo in mezzo all'influenza spunta Berlusconi
di red
Il consueto comunicato stampa sulle attivita' e le dichiarazioni quotidiane
della Casa Bianca in data 31 ottobre non contiene uno specifico paragrafo
sulla visita del premier italiano Silvio Berlusconi, ma un piccolo riferimento
nella sezione dedicata alla questione dell'influenza aviaria.
Riportiamo l'elenco dei temi trattati, penultimo dei quali quello sull'influenza aviaria. All'interno di questo, in grassetto nello stralcio sottostante, una piccola digressione su Berlusconi.
Gli esperti di satira porebbero sbizzarrirsi nei paragoni fra il premier e un microbo, ma noi rileviamo soltanto il segno di fastidio e lo scarso peso che emerge da simile trattamento verso l'amico e alleato dopo le recenti esternazioni...
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan James S. Brady
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2:43 P.M. EST ... We have already been acting to create a vaccine and stockpile protective medicines, such as antivirals. We are accelerating efforts to develop the next generation of vaccine technology. That means using cell-based techniques versus the egg-based, because we believe that if we can move to the cell-based technique, we have the manufacturing capacity to be able to develop or mass produce that vaccine quickly. And that's going to be important.
We don't know -- well, we do know from history that there have been outbreaks from the bird flu. We don't know what strain of virus might eventually lead to a possible outbreak, but it's something we need to take seriously. And that's why the President has been leading the way. We've expanded our stockpile of antivirals, to over 4 million courses by the end of 2005. We're enhancing domestic preparedness. Remember, we've provided over $5 billion to states and localities for public health and medical preparedness since 2001.
We've requested some $70 million in the '06 budget for mobile hospital surge capacity, emergency medical personnel, and we've added influenza viruses with pandemic potential to the list of quarantine-able diseases. That was done back on April 1st of this year. We've also been working to advance the international efforts to contain the outbreak. We announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza at the United Nations back on September 14th.
More than 80 nations have joined that effort. We have an ongoing engagement with the international community on these issues. In fact, just today, when the President met with Prime Minister Berlusconi over lunch, they discussed the importance of working together, the European Union and the United States, to address this threat, and the importance of, if there is a human-to-human transmission, that we are able to quickly move and try to contain that possible outbreak.
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