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Ready or Not, Bird Flu Is Coming to America - Officials Advise Stocking Up on Provisions

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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AvianFlu/story?id=1716820

By BRIAN ROSS
March 13, 2006

In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird flu outbreak approaches the United States.

Ready or not, here it comes.

It is being spread much faster than first predicted from one wild flock of birds to another, an airborne delivery system that no government can stop.

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