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Bird flu: How serious is the threat of a pandemic?

Discoveries of new cases of bird flu (avian influenza) of the deadliest strain known so far among wild fowl and poultry ? A/H5N1 ? are spreading like wildfire.
By Arne Johansson, CWI Sweden

An education with fries

Socialist Party member and school student Jared Goodwin recently had this letter published in the Age newspaper in Melbourne. It was written in response to the news that the Victorian Education Department is exploring public-private partnerships in order to provide funding for secondary schools.