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Letter: Wake up America

Published 2 November 2005

From Steve Welch

There have been a number of comments recently to the effect that the increase in hurricane strength in the past few years should be a wake-up call to the US on global warming. It seems to me that a similar comment might be made about bird flu and the threat that if the H5N1 virus evolves to be highly contagious between humans it will kill large numbers of people. According to recent polls, most Americans don’t believe in evolution; could this be wake-up call number two?

Folkestone, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2524 published 5 November 2005

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