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I have written in my blog before about the efforts to eradicate these diseases. Today I took a look from the other side. Seeing how potentially devastating these diseases could be, I decided to start to take some small steps to help by adding a funding raising page on my blog in support of the global fund.

\n Alanna Shaikh has spent the last ten years immersed in global health; she has worked for NGOs, companies, universities, and the US government on projects that ranged from preventing antibacterial resistance to improving maternal and child health. She has decided to try picking the next pandemic. This is the real challenge that faces us in achieving the 6th Millennium Development Goal combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.

Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?

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