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Bush Outlines Bird-Flu Strategy

By Don Gonyea

Published October 31, 2005 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 19 years ago.

Speaking at the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, President Bush calls for $7.1 billion in emergency funding to protect against a flu pandemic.

The president said he wants to have enough vaccine to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain of bird flu.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.