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Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.

By Declan McCullagh

A Defense Department planning document summarizing the military's contingency plan says the Pentagon is prepared to assist in "quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an influenza pandemic" and aiding in "efforts to restore and maintain order."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22524.htm



Swine Flu?

A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend

By Simon Jenkins

Health scares enable media-hungry doctors, public health officials and drugs companies to benefit by manipulating fright.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22521.htm

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Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/30-12



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