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[Wallo World] Weasel Watching Update: June 3, 2005: comparisons between the so-called “Spanish Flu” that killed 40 million people worldwide and today’s birdflu... slaughter of World War I, but also the outbreak of an influenza pandemic that killed up to 40

[Just a Bump in the Beltway] Time Running Out: Citing a lack of adequately coordinated global preparation for what leading scientists fear is an inevitable outbreak of a deadly flu pandemic that could rapidly kill up to tens of millions of people, three of the world’s most prestigious science and policy institutions have launched an initiative to catalyze improved preparedness for a pandemic.

[ Dymaxion Web at Radio : Dymaxion Web at Radio] Henny-Penny, The Bird Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest: At any rate, public health resources even in the richest countries will be totally overwhelmed whereas in the poor countries where population density is often the highest, the speed of transmission will completely overrun already frayed civil societies. In many countries we can expect total collapse as the scourge races through populations In the looming Avian Flu outbreak scenario, which many of the most credible experts believe is not a question of if but of when (see this month's issue of Nature Magazine), the deaths and ensuing panic will only be the beginning of the suffering. A lasting result of a serious pandemic, will be the kind of economic devastation never before experienced on a worldwide scale. We have to think that in a global economy, many, if not most, of our consumer goods are manufactured in Asia, where the disease is spawning; conversely, we in North America supply many parts of the world with critical food supplies.

[Health Talk] Clearing the air on airplane cabin air (Press Release): Fear about the safety of the air in airplane cabins heightens whenever the possibility of a new or emerging infection, such as SARS or avian (bird) flu, appears in the headlines. Each new report of an avian flu outbreak raises questions about whether airplane

 [Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: bird flu: What's this? This page shows goodies from the web about bird flu. To contribute, just make a post to your blog about bird flu and include the link below. More Info »

[Vegblog.org] veg blog: Avian Flu outbreak forces slaughter of chickens and urkeys: We read last year about the destruction of 16,000 chickens in Connecticut for the same thing. The article stresses that "birds with the virus pose no health threat to humans, but it stunts the birds' growth and limits their capacity to lay eggs, hurting market value." To top it all off, one of the recent tornados in the area tore apart one of the turkey houses beyond any possibility of being salvaged.

[Cayankee.blogs.com] CALIFORNIA YANKEE: North Korea Confirms Bird Flu Outbreak: The A(H5N1) virus was first documented to have jumped to people in 1997, when sick chickens infected 18 people in Hong Kong, including previously healthy adults, killing 6. All 1.5 million chickens there were slaughtered within three days, a step some influenza experts have credited as preventing a global epidemic.

 [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: China's "isolated" bird flu outbreak: Ai said hospitals in Gangca County, where the avian flu cases were reported, have opened up a separate outpatient department forfeverish patients alone. "The county's health department, meanwhile, is assisting the provincial disease control and prevention center in medical observations of people who had had close contacts with the birds," he added.

 [Detnews.com] Concern builds over asian flu outbreak - 02/03/05: • Many forms of avian flu virus cause only mild symptoms in the birds, or no symptoms at all. However, some of the viruses produce a highly contagious and rapidly fatal disease, leading to severe epidemics. These virulent viruses are known as "highly pathogenic avian influenza" and it is these viruses that cause particular concern.

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