Politics: Bush is good for your health

OK, maybe not for some people's blood pressure, but President Bush is doing the right thing with his initiatives to preemptively prevent the spread of avian flu; a global pandemic is serious stuff, not hype. His AIDS initiative in Africa has also been a large step in the right direction.

We still need better stockpiles of antidotes in case of chemical or nuclear incident, as well as annual influenza vaccines; but we should be wary of re-engineering vaccination production processes unless we want another Thalidomide scare.