Bird Flu Would Ravage US, White House Warns

Media Syndicate ^ | 1-19-2007

[blam]

BF Ping.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Here we go...person of the year..07..Bird Flu!

[sarasota]

It's sounding like the boy who cried wolf.

[blam]

WHO: "No Change" To Treatment After New Bird Flu Claims Two

"The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Friday there would be no change in its recommendations for the treatment of bird flu after two members of the same family died in Egypt from a strain resistant to the antiviral drug, oseltamivir."

[theDentist]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[Jim Noble]

Well, any nonexistent disease "could" ravage the US

I spent weeks in 2002-03 on smallpox containment planning, and believe me, the government is totally and fundamentally unprepared to deal with any disaster of that magnitude. The degree of magical thinking that exists among officials charged with responsibility for the public health is absolutely beyond belief.

That having been said, it's a mistake to focus on H5N1 "bird" flu as a major public health threat, which it isn't.

[LIConFem]

I'm still waiting for the ice age that all of the climatologists promised me back in the '70s.

[A. Morgan]

BirdBrain of the year award goes to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, for his incessant lefty clucking.

[hadaclueonce]

if it happens do we all get FEMA cards?

[wku man]

Bird flu killed 80 people last year, worldwide. Meanwhile, how many right here in the USA died of the plain ol' run of the mill flu?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[LC HOGHEAD]

OH MY GAWD !!!! Its the worst thing to happen since that cataclysmic swine flu epidemic of the eighties that they said would kill millions too. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sweet_diane]

Currently, I have some migrating birds taking a rest stop on my lot and the one next door. This is the third day that it has sounded like the soundtrack to The Birds outside my door.

to panic or not to panic.....

[blam]

"to panic or not to panic....."

Those birds were over here yesterday, lol.

Not yet.

"There have been no verified incidences of bird flu in either wild birds or domestic poultry in North America."

[USA-Forever]

All I can say--My wife, a physician, has attended several conferences on this topic.She is not one to exaggerate things and in the past has poo-pooed these things--things this could be the real deal.She thinks the major impact will be in poorer Countries--but its a coming!!!</p>

[Last Laugh]

Two words from the entire article popped out at me:

major investments

All the hoopla about bird flu, all the dire warnings about consequence and preparedness, all boil down to those two words.

[blam]

"My wife, a physician, has attended several conferences on this topic.She is not one to exaggerate things and in the past has poo-pooed these things--things this could be the real deal."

Have you all made any preparations? If so, what?

[USA-Forever]

Haven't made any preparations---except looked into investing in two Companies that are making Vaccines----Cambridge bioteck firm--Acambis and a Swiss vaccine firm----Cytos Biotechnology. Other preparation will come down the road.(like receiving an early vaccine--etc.)

[ansel12]

I'm always prepared, bird flu or terrorism, or whatever.

I'll let the experts argue about possibilities, my job is to be personally prepared to take care of myself if the system breaks.

[thinking]

44,000 people killed in vehicle crashes, on an annual basis