Bird Flu Monitor > Referral: Pandemic Challenges For Hospitals

Avian Flu Diaryhttp://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/02/referral-pandemic-challenges-for.html [Avian Flu Diary] DemFromCt, who blogs on The Daily Kos, has an excellent overview of the challenges hospitals will face during any pandemic crisis. 

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Prepared Citizenshttp://preparedcitizens.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/getting-your-family-to-prepare-is-crucial/ [Prepared Citizens] Getting your family to prepare is crucial”¦: Greg Dworkin of fluwikiOur community has been so fortunate to have the wisdom of the Reveres, I have been blessed in so many ways by people like Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary, who taught us to adopt an essential worker and provided .

Politics and Current Affairs[Politics and Current Affairs] World Events :: RE: Bird Flu Potential Pandemic: Updates: Charoen Chuchottaworn, an avian-flu expert at the Public Health Ministry, said doctors reviewing the cases were alerted by the very mild symptoms present in both patients, neither of whom had had any recent contact with birds or .

snowdeal.org - confluxhttp://snowdeal.org/2006/03/bbc-news-austria-detects-bird-flu-in.html [snowdeal.org - conflux] BBC News: Austria detects bird flu in cats: Bush says he got the idea by reading John Barry's excellent account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, ''The Great Influenza." Although quarantine was used successfully in that pandemic, on the island of American Samoa, Barry in his afterword suggests (sensibly) that we need a national plan to deal with a future influenza pandemic."

Ethics of Vaccines[Ethics of Vaccines] Strategies for distributing limited supplies of avian flu vaccine: Speaking of Science, the current (April 21) issue is devoted entirely to influenza and is available free (with registration). In an introduction to the issue titled "Influenza: The State of Our Ignorance," Caroline Ash and Leslie Roberts write,

too much about nothing[too much about nothing] Avian Flu: For example, the other day, Bush suggested we use the military to quarantine people in the event of a flu pandemic, which has me all sorts of queasy. I think everyone should feel a little wrong about the idea of using the US military to accomplish tasks within the country —

MBN, Monte Bubbles Network[MBN, Monte Bubbles Network] Reba McEntire’s Spring Line of Clothes: I'll be sitting down to the table with a friend talking about issues like North Korea, or thanking him for having 1,000 troops in Iraq, or worrying about the spread of pandemic disease, or talking about how we can help the young democracy, Afghanistan. And I find it amazing that the President of the United States is sitting down talking about peace with the head of a country that my dad went to war with, and your dads and grandads went to war with.

Talk: Med[Talk: Med] 25 new messages in 12 topics - digest: such as salmonella but also because Chinese chickens, if not properly > processed, could be a source of avian flu, which public-health > authorities fear may be poised to trigger a human pandemic.

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