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[Mover Mike -] A plan developed by the Bush administration to deal with any possible outbreak of pandemic flu shows that the United States is woefully unprepared for what could become the worst disaster in the nation's history. When, not if, a pandemic strikes, the US, hospitals would be overwhelmed, there could be riots at vaccination centers, and power and food supplies could be disrupted.

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http://fredbieling.blogspot.com [Making conservatives cringe since 1977] Stand in the place where you are . . .: SATURDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The United States is unprepared for a global flu pandemic, according to a draft of a federal report, which predicts a worst-case scenario that could lead to the deaths of 1.9 million Americans and the hospitalization of 8.5 million more people with costs exceeding $450 billion.

[Blog.thirdage.com] ThirdAge Blog » Blog Archive » Killer Flu: H5NI, a number you’ll be hearing a lot about, is the particular variant of avian flu that has public health officials around the world extremely worried. A bird flu that infects humans then mutates so that one sick person can infect many others could rapidly sweep the world in a pandemic causing anywhere from 2 million to 150 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

http://thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com [The Dignified Rant] Spreading Wings: The newspaper Kommersant quoted the state veterinary service as saying laboratory experts had found the H5N1 strain in samples from the Novosibirsk region, where an outbreak of bird flu was reported last week.

http://spaces.icgpartners.com [Spaces.icgpartners.com] ICG Spaces - community weblog - Infrastructure Defense Public: Threat of H5N1 avian flu pandemic rises to point that business must actively consider .As Rich Nations Stock Up, Asians Unprepared for Pandemic .

http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: August 2005: It is widely reported (e.g., BBC) that a bird flu pandemic is stoppable "if governments work together." Whether a pandemic with H5N1 (as opposed to another influenza A subtype) happens or not is no longer within the control of any government (if it ever was). I (and others, notably Henry Niman) have said this before, but it must be said again: once this virus gains the capability of being transmitted from person to person like other influenza subtypes that circulate in human populations, there will be no way to prevent its global spread.

http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org [Commongroundcommonsense.org] Common Ground Common Sense: said Lee Jong Wook, ."At this point H5N1 has pandemic potential, but it is not a pandemic virus,"

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