Bird Flu Disease

Bird Flu Disease Protection

2006-06-13T12:04:00.000-07:00

The most complete information that I've been able to find on how to make sure that you and your family survive bird flu disease is right here:

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Other ebooks contain the same old rehashed information you can find for free here and in other blogs.

How to Protect Yourself and Your Family From Bird Flu contains a unique 7-Perimeter Immune System to keep yourself and your family free from bird flu disease.

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Bird flu control in Zanzibar

2006-06-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

Zanzibar is an island off the coast of Tanzania, Africa -- and I applaud its tough stand on preventing the spread of bird flu disease into that country.

Of course, Zanzibar is relatively lucky in that as an island, it can control its borders more than most countries. I doubt that importing chickens illegally is so profitable that it's worth trying to sneak onto the island late at night in small boats.

They do have illegal bird importers, however, whom they are planning to prosecute for not sending the birds back.

And if they're really smart, if there's a pandemic, they'll close off their island.

The only question mark is, are they on the migration routes of any ducks or geese? If so, controlling the importation of chickens will give them only partial protection.

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bird flu disease threat

2006-06-11T20:32:00.000-07:00

The following article is for historical interest -- it was written in 1998 about the outbreak of bird flu that occurred in Hong Kong in 1997. It's frightening that people did perceive the danger in this virus back then -- but the world ignored it.

The dates and figures have changed, but the danger this article outlines is still real.

Isn't it true that H5N1 has yet to mutate into a strain that passes easily from person to person?

Nobody really knows that. Personally, I believe it's made such a mutation quite often -- but the mutation occured in a victim that failed to transmit that mutation, and so it died with its host.

There's also the significance of where I found this article -- on the Junk Science site. If its editor, Steven J. Milloy, thought that its basis was unscientific -- he is not shy about expressing his opinions, no matter how politically incorrect it may be. (His home page is currently full of attacks on Al Gore's movie on global warming, which he obviously does believe is junk science.)

I can't speak for Mr. Milloy's current opinions, and haven't yet found a wait to search his archives directly for more info on the science behind bird flu.

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bird flu disease in Romania

2006-06-01T20:05:00.000-07:00

I found an interesting firsthand look at how Romania is dealing with their bird flu problem. I've noticed that as this article mentions, they're playing the blame game a lot.

And this has a lot of good details that you can find in such personal accounts but that strictly news stories won't provide. Sometimes details such as what people are eating in restaurants can be more informative than a government press release.

Certainly more truthful!

I would like the point out to the writer that there's no need to fear properly cooked chicken. It's living chickens or raw chicken meat that spreads the virus.

Thoroughly cooking chicken kills the virus so you can't get bird flu disease from it.

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Bird flu disease protection

2006-05-28T19:31:00.000-07:00

Bird Flu Disease WHO training

2006-05-28T19:29:00.000-07:00

Here's a document from the World Health Organization in conjunction with the IASC Humanitarian Health Center on training for health professionals to deal with health crisies, such as bird flu disease outbreaks.

The training was held last Fall in Geneva.

They're developing the Health Emergency Response Network (HEAR-NET).

What's sort of interesting is the stress in the course on things like fitting into WHO'S culture and dealing with the media and personal health and fitness. I guess they assume that the medical professionals taking course will already know what to do on the purely medical/technical levels.

bird flu disease and other humanitarian and disaster planning course by WHO

Bird flu disease blogs

2006-05-25T18:34:00.000-07:00

Check out my other bird flu related blogs:

Asian bird flu symptoms
Bird flu epidemic
Bird flu prevention
H5N1 bird flu

Bird flu disease crackdown in Romania

2006-05-25T17:42:00.000-07:00

Fighting the bird flu disease can be harder than you'd think. It's still spreading through Romania, despite quarantines of neighborhoods that are some of the harshest known (who'd be surprised to learn that China has secretly imposed crackdowns in bird flu areas? Not I.) restrictions placed on people.

The Romanian government put several hundred more people under quarantine.

The government announced that people would be free to go to their jobs and classes, but local authorities were waiting for written instructions.

This is almost certainly counterproductive. People can look and feel healthy and still be infected with the virus, so it's remotely possible than a Romanian resident could spread the virus, but the odds are that the ill will and fear created by these quarantine actions will hinder the fight against the bird flu disease in Romania, not help it -- because people will become more reluctant to report dead birds or sick neighbors or themselves.

quarantine in Romania attempting to control bird flu disease

Bird Flu Disease Conference

2006-05-16T18:36:00.000-07:00

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Here's more encouraging news. Now that Thailand has gone such a long way in controlling its outbreaks of bird flu disease, it is helping its poorer neighbors. (Although often presented as being a very poor country, and it is poor compared to the developed world, Thailand however is relatively wealthy compared to many poor countries. Go to The Philippines from Thailand and you'll be struck by the difference. And I'm sure that The Philippines is wealthy compared to Laos and Cambodia.)

Anyway, Thailand hosted a conference and is sharing information and helping them to make a regional plan to combat bird flu disease and will help out financially.

Vietnam is poorer than Thailand but has a strong central government. Myanmar also has a strong central government -- a very authoritarian one. Laos still has a communist government just as Vietnam does, but it's questionable how much control it wields outside Vientiane and Luang Prabang. The country has a lot of difficult geography and also many ethnic groups in the mountains.

Cambodia is probably the closest to both extreme poverty and political chaos that makes controlling the bird flu disease virus difficult.

Indonesia is conspicuous by its absence from this conference. I have to wonder whether that's simply because it's not geographically adjacent to Thailand and so wasn't invited or because its government didn't want to attend. It's currently the most troublesome spot in Asia for bird flu disease.

bird flu disease conference in Thailand

CIDRAP on bird flu disease

2006-05-12T14:04:00.000-07:00

Here's the bird flu site for the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy or CIDRAP.

I'd never heard of CIDRAP before. They say their mission is to prevent illness and death from infectious diseases by rapidly putting scientific knowledge to practical use.

The Director of CIDRAP is Dr. Michael T. Osterholm. I've seen his name many times before. Both in connection with bird flu publicity and public health. I believe he used to be with the Minnesota state public health division.

On the Advisory Board is C.J. Peters who used to work for the CDC and Richard Preston, author of THE HOT ZONE and THE DEVIL IN THE FREEZER.

CIDRAP was founded just a week before September 11, 2001, and so they also have an ongoing interest in stopping bioterrorism.

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy CIDRAP bird flu disease site

bird flu disease free ebook

2006-05-10T09:32:00.000-07:00

Here is the best free resource I've found on how to protect yourself and your family from the bird flu disease. This sums up all the free information you can find on the Internet, without paying for it and without doing the extensive digging yourself.

Clint Fountain is a good guy trying to saving people's lives from the bird flu disease, and he's given me permission to give this away to readers of this bird flu disease blog.

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Bird Flu Disease

2006-05-09T09:46:00.000-07:00

Here's a fair take on the movie which ABC will show tonight, "First Contact: Bird Flu in America" --

It's from the CDC, and attempts to take a factual look at the many events of the movie.

What's interesting is that as you read each question and answer, you'll notice that what the CDC is saying in soft, understated governmental language is that on many levels -- the movie is accurate!

Yes, it doesn't use heavy emotional dramatization, but it's saying that for the most part these things might happen.

They take issue with the mass graves part, but personally that doesn't upset me much. I want to live, not be buried in any grave! If I do die along with thousands of others, maybe mass graves will be necessary. But I am more concerned with getting through.

Of course, skeptics say that the pandemic will never happen, and I hope they're right, but the CDC is here saying in their own bureaucratic way that ABC did a lot of things right.

I agree with the observation of Michael Leavitt that people should be scared into preparing for the pandemic, not panicked by the possibility.

bird flu disease in ABC movie