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Credits

Thanks to-

• Ngoc Tran, Hieu's sister, for helping us find teammates and for allowing us to use her precious pictures and videos from Vietnam.
• Nah Fluke and Nah Mui, Andrew and William's Aunt and Uncle, for sending us information, posters, and pamphlets on the avian flu from Thailand (Next day delivery! Sweet!)
• The Thai Department of Animal Control, Ministry of Agriculture, for allowing us to use what Nah Fluke and Nah Mui sent us.
• Dr. Tran Thanh Duong, for giving us a chance for Nieu to interview him.
• Governor's office, State of New Hampshire, for providing us a copy of the "Influenza Preparedness Plan" and for answering our question regarding Avian Flu Preparedness.
• Mr. DeYoung, for sharing information regarding the state of New Hampshire drill in Avian Flu preparedness exercise.
• Dr Carkin, for reviewing our web site and correct some of our writings.
• Tonypa, for allowing us to use parts of his code from Tile based games to created the movement engine, and the collision engine (view permission to use code as long as credit is provided, and non-commercial uses.)
• Scott Dowell, for providing us a picture of the infected lungs
• ESL students of Mrs. Papanikolau, for providing us photos of their country and for providing us news about avian flu from their countries.
• Wikimedia, for allowing us to use their ambulance picture (link here, permisssion here) ), influenza picture (link here, permission here) , Tamiflu picture (link here, permission here), and their chemical make up of Tamiflu picture(link here, permission here)
• 3DScience.com, for allowing us to use it's 3D image of the H5N1 virus (link here, permission here )