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[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] ”¦ but not everyone is ready First, it was Y2K. Then it was potential for terrorist attacks in the wake of Sept.

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Oilempire.us[Oilempire.us] Bird Flu: But if - when - a flu pandemic comes, and millions of people die around the world over a period of months, the reality will be one of two alternatives. It's either going to be like those films, with videoconferencing suddenly all the rage, local farm produce making a big profit, empty supermarket shelves (you have to ship the oil, and distribute the fuel, but can the Armed Forces really do all that?), tumbleweed blowing in the streets, a medieval attitude to anyone not from "around here".

Stephensonstrategies.com[Stephensonstrategies.com] W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.: Let's face it: the folks in DC are too consumed right now with the blame game for last September (or whitewashes, as the White House "investigation" is likely to be...) to multitask and really be ready for the pandemic, especially a worst-case scenario in which H5N1 leaps the animal-human barrier somewhere in Africa in the next few days and then spreads like the "tsunami" that WHO has predicted. Just ask yourself, when was the last time you heard a PSA telling you to go to the excellent pandemicflu.gov site to learn what to do?

Birdflumonitor.com[Birdflumonitor.com] Bird Flu Monitor: H5N1 Archives: [ Bird Cause Flu] for South Asia, World Bank Says (Update1) (Bloomberg.com), Bird flu ‘high risk’ in South Asia (CNN.com), Sauerkraut, Face Masks Won’t Stop Bird Flu, May Help Retailers (Bloomberg.com), China plagued by bird-flu coverups (Asia Times), Indonesia Is Struggling to Warn of Bird Flu Danger (Update1) (Bloomberg.com), State rounds up geese at park to perform tests for bird flu (Rocky Mountain News), More on woitv.com (WOI-TV Des Moins), Indonesia Is Struggling to Warn of Bird Flu Danger (Update2) (Bloomberg.com), States to allot bird flu vaccine., Drug sales tracked for signs of flu pandemic., So who’s really to blame for bird flu?, ZAMBIA: More resources needed to counter avian flu (IRIN), Zambia: More Resources Needed to Counter Avian Flu (AllAfrica.com), CDC: States should aim to contain bird flu (AP via Yahoo!

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