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Attitude Quotes
He came to play every day. He was like Larry Bird in basketball. He was one of the first guys at practice and always put his work in. His whole attitude was contagious. You wanted to come to the ballpark and be around him. You knew you had a chance to win because he was on your team.
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Agreed Quotes
I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.
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Affects Quotes
I think by and large, people understand that bird flu is an ailment that affects poultry, and it is almost impossible for humans to get it. You've got to be in direct contact with bird feces and feathers and so on, and in a farming and wet-market situation, and that doesn't apply to 99.9 percent of tourists.
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Among Quotes
It isn't an absolute, but you certainly can say that the chances of containing spread among bird flocks in developed nations that have good agricultural capabilities and controls, to identify rapidly and cull and eliminate the sick chickens to prevent spread . . . is much better than in some other developing nations.
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Authority Quotes
It is important that local and national authorities within other countries in the region remain vigilant for possible outbreaks of suspected avian influenza in poultry and other birds. It is vital that all instances of multiple bird deaths are reported to authorities and investigated promptly.
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Cause Quotes
Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in Asia. There is concern these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are not infecting people in the United States at this time. Rather than wait for that possibility to occur, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing avian influenza vaccines.
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Available Quotes
The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.
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Afternoon Quotes
We received a confirmation from WHO laboratory in Atlanta CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) this morning that the blood of the boy was positive, and this afternoon we also get confirmation from WHO laboratory in Hong Kong that the girl's blood test was also positive on bird flu.