virus: zebras' muscles (oy vey)

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 20:59:58 MST

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    Cooperation urged on invasives

    AIBS meeting participants say US Department of Homeland Security could
    coordinate efforts | By Eugene Russo

    WASHINGTON, DC—Policymakers are not doing nearly enough to curb the
    negative ecological and economic consequences of invasive species,
    biologists said

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    Getting the bill passed, however, will be a struggle, Ehlers said. Several
    committees have jurisdiction; coordinating policies across international
    borders is tricky; and some members of Congress need to be better educated
    about the issue. (According to Ehlers, at one hearing about the problem of
    zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, one puzzled representative asked why they
    should spend so much money on "zebras' muscles.")

    http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040322/03

    And these are the people who will be making policy decisions about high
    tech life and death matters.

    Keith Henson 

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