U.S. Government Avian Flu Preparedness web sites

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I first heard of these web sites today, so, I searched for them:

http://www.avianflu.gov/ and

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/

These web sites are important to read and comprehend now, in order to be fully prepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.

Thankfully, so far, there haven't been any cases of human to human transmission of the avian flu, so, there is still time to get prepared, should that possibility actually arrive. Thus far, the only cases of avian flu are occurring in birds, mammals that eat birds infected with the H5N1 flu, and humans that live in close proximity to birds that are carrying the H5N1 virus.

Get prepared and be prepared. The H5N1 bird flu could have devastating implications once human to human spread has started, and we haven't any idea when that leap from bird to bird transmission to human to human spread will occur.

We increase the chances of our survival, and the survival of our families, by becoming as informed and prepared as possible, to combat the bird flu.

These are both U.S. government web sites, and each contain the same information. I'd suggest using the recommended amounts of food and water to store as minimums. Get more if you can afford to.

GeoThorn
 
Good man Geothorn:thumbup:
I posted this on another forum;

PANDEMICS- H5N1- AVIAN FLU Stay informed. With 50 percent mortality rate it is not something to sneeze at!
Like any natural disaster you make prudent preparation’s .It’s called Survival.
Your learning how to make shelter’s ,primitive fire making, food gathering ect. But you live in the modern world with travel from one nation on the other side of the world only hour’s away.
http://www.bmonesbittburns.com/economics/reports/20051011/dont_fear_fear.pdf
http://fluwikie.com/
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/11120501/H5N1_Geographic_Genetic.html
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/files/the_coming_influenza_pandemic_11pt_ver_5oct2005.pdf
http://pandemicflu.gov/
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2005_05_19/en/index.html
 
Thanks to akabu and Guyon for great and informative links! Being informed and smart can help get us through this version of avian flu, better than the 1918-1919 "Spanish Flu" survivors were able to!

Though, with pause, we wouldn't know as much as we do, in order to better protect ourselves, without all those that sadly died, in the U.S. and the rest of the world, in 1918-19.

Now, where did I put my particulate masks...? Those drywall dust masks should stop a sneeze hitting one in the nose and mouth, but, your eyes, also mucous membranes, can still "catch" a part of a sneeze, and give you a case of the common cold, or a pandemic flu....

GeoThorn
 
If any of you have DISH TV or other Cable chanel that get's CCT TV 265[on DISH TV] they have report's on this issue .That's China Centeral TV, also in Spanish and French but on an other channel.. hold one..ahh I thought I had a link, you can Google it,almost daily update's better than Western new's
 
mask what mask? your honey will rip it off!:D What !you don't want to give a goood-by kiss!:D
 
This doomsday scenario has already played out a few times since the 1918 case, once a few years back. In almost all cases the morphing required to become Human to Human transmissible, greatly reduces lethality. The airborn human version the last time ended up causing a mild rash. Don't be complacent, but it isn't necesarilly going to be armagedon either.
 
Protactical said:
This doomsday scenario has already played out a few times since the 1918 case, once a few years back. In almost all cases the morphing required to become Human to Human transmissible, greatly reduces lethality. The airborn human version the last time ended up causing a mild rash. Don't be complacent, but it isn't necesarilly going to be armagedon either.
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OK.... In the 1918-1919 "Spanish Flu" pandemic, the big one, approximately 500,000 Americans died, and around 40,000,000 people worldwide died. No, not quite Armageddon, but, people travel quite a bit more, now, than in 1918-1919, and Americans were a good deal more self-reliant back them.

The next Avian flu pandemic isn't predicted to be worse than the 1918-1919 "Spanish Flu," but, it could be....

GeoThorn
 
Yeah, but this exact same scare about a bird flu travelling around the world that could morph into a flu as virulant as the 1918 flu happened around two years ago. They were killing chickens en mass in BC due to outbreaks in poultry, finally it jumped the species barrier, and the resulting human flu was trivially non-lethal. This is typical according to epidemeologists. So the point isn't that something bad can't happen, but that the more likely outcome of even a morphing of the current bug is not 1918. To listen to a lot of the coverage it implies that if the flu crosses the species barrier and then becomes airborn, then we are dying by the hundreds of thousands. That is very unlikely as when this last happened on the west coast a few years back the results were trivial.

Now if the worst happens, and all our greater disease knowledge doesn't help, then 1918 here we come.
 
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