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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Some of the people in Indonesia who have gotten it apparently didn't get it from birds. Also Niman says that the specs for the flu bird have in Indo isn't the same as the version people are getting. I'm a worse than layman so if you want to know about these details check the sites I've read. Unless you want to continue to think that the threat is imaginary, in which case be my guest.


61 posted on 11/16/2006 9:13:42 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
I'm a worse than layman so if you want to know about these details check the sites I've read.

I welcome links! I do not claim that the threat is imaginary. I do claim that over-reliance on a human vaccine as the only available solution is much too narrow. Basic hygiene, rapid detection (an effective public health system), and avoiding politically correct "paralysis" works in containing public health threats. Some successful programs in the western world were leprosy, plague, rabies, smallpox, typhoid, polio, rubella, rubeola, tuberculosis, tetanus, hepatitis, syphilis, and malaria; to name a few. It would be irresponsible to demand a global effort at the development of a human vaccine for H5N1 while people are still living with fowl and hogs in their homes in Asia. Kind of the equivalent to taking the handle off of the community water pump. Do not even get me started on whether AIDS or HIV carriers should have been quarantined for public health reasons. I am sure that Typhoid Mary was a nice person, and her "rights" were more important than other human lives.

66 posted on 11/16/2006 9:39:22 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
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