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Monday, June 13, 2005

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Monday, June 13, 2005 Using Wikipedia entry as a pandemic-prevention clearinghouse An MD in the Canary Islands has decided to use Wikipedia's entry on Avian Flu as the central clearinghouse for breaking information on the virus, collecting and publishing info on pandemic prevention, mitigation and recovery. The letter announcing this, sent to the Promed mailing list for the International Society of Infectious Diseases is here. Jamais Cascio's WorldChanging commentary on this is here. Link posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:03:18 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: