Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:38:17 -0700 (PDT)

Public Health System and Bioterrorism

Irvine -- Is the Public Health System in the U.S. prepared for bioterrorism? And are we overreacting to the anthrax scare?

On Subversity this afternoon, we chat with Dr. Ian Lipkin, UCI's endowed Louise Arnold Chair of Neurosciences. Dr. Lipkin is visiting public health professsor at Columbia this year.

Participating in the interview is Dr. Stefano Sensi, UCI assistant adjunct professor of neurology.

Lipkin is the discover in 1999 of the West Nile Virus. We'll also be airing the latest alternative news about the War on Afghanistan.

The show airs this afternoon, October 19, 2001, from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, and is Web-cast via kuci.org.

Resources:

UCI press release on Lipkin
www.communications.uci.edu/releases/00releases/145ap00.html

Lipkin's research
www.ucihs.uci.edu/microbio/faculty/lipkin.html

Tomorrow, Saturday, October 20, 2001, Subversity co-sponsors a forum on alternative media at 3 pm in Social Science Lecture Hall, Social Science Plaza at UCI. Speakers are: David Barsamiann (Alternative Radio), Laura Flanders (Working Assets Radio), Sonali Kolhatkar (Afghan's Women's Mission), and Glen Mimura (UCI Asian American Studies Program.

dan

Daniel C. Tsang
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