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The cost of preventing bird flu

The president wants to spend $7.1 billion of the people's money to guard against avian flu. But medical historian and commentator Howard Markel wonders whether it's being spent wisely.

Howard Markel is the Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.

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