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Posted on October 12, 2008

Via Popular Science: Preventing an outbreak: McCain and Obama on pandemics. This is part of a series on the US candidates' positions on science issues. Excerpt, re-paragraphed:With the majority of funds to combat bird flu coming in those appropriation bills that usually pass the Senate unanimously, both candidates have voted for funds to prevent or manage an outbreak of pandemic flu. Oddly, only Senator McCain s Science Debate answer specifically mentions a flu pandemic. That is odd because Senator Obama has been far more active on this issue than McCain.Obama was on of the co-sponsors of S ...

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