FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, September 13, 2004
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2004-09-13

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, September 13, 2004
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 106 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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For the past few weeks, I have been involved in a number of
briefings of Carol Kuntz and Stewart Simonson regarding Biodefense and the concern
about the emergence of an H5N1 bird flu that has been smoldering in Asia (Thailand,
Viet Nam, China, Taiwan, etc) with jumping of cases from chickens to humans.
        President Clinton had quadruple bypass surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian
Hospital related to unstable angina this past week. I contacted Senator Clinton’s office to
get his private e-mail address to send him my personal best wishes.
        Today, I had an official briefing at the White House for Carol Kuntz and Bruce
Miller (her deputy) on research plans and strategy for countermeasures for “Genetically
Engineered Microbes”. The presentation was very well received. Carol gave me a “red-
lined” copy of the Bioshield Legislation that was signed by President Bush and VP
Cheney as a special gift from them to me due to my work on the development and
passage of BioShield.