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[Effect Measure] Pride and prejudice and bird flu in Indonesia: It is the world's fourth most populous nation with endemic H5N1 infection in poultry in close contact with masses of people. One of the (useful) carryovers from the heyday of US collaboration is a laboratory capable of diagnosing bird flu and important in training Indonesians:
[Adventures in Autism] Frist Fans Public Fears of Avian Flu: Moreover, the industry does not need additional liability protection for the flourishing market for “pandemic vaccines” and antivirals, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) already has authority to exempt drugmakers from liability under the kind of “hazardous” circumstances that would be present during a disease pandemic.
[Violette's Page... Anti-Bush, Anti-War Resources] Pandemic Flu: the race and class issues: It is too soon to tell whether H5N1, or avian flu, will transform into the human pandemic that many fear or whether it will pass like the 1976 swine flu. But it is already clear that failure to account for racial and economic inequalities can have deadly consequences in the event of any public health emergency.
[.::Toby in the Wonderland::.] How Bad Will The Pandemic Flu Be?: . Get yourself prepared for the worst, you never know. It may never happened. But anything is possible. Start to learn about this deadly flu and get ready, in case it happened and where to get help. You can be treated if you get help quick enough. This deadly virus is not fun.
[Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Here's the transcript: "At this hour, the World Health Organization has declared a full-scale pandemic influenza alert, with person-to-person spread lasting more than two weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam. During previous influenza pandemics in the United States, large numbers of people were ill, sought medical care, were hospitalized and died.
[H5n1flu.blogspot.com] H5N1 Avian Flu: Though the danger of such an event occuring has been with us ever since H5N1 reappeared in 2001, the danger is particularly acute this year because contrary to what is publically reported by the WHO, human to human transmission of H5N1 Avian flu has become quite common. And although the WHO grudgingly admits that H5N1 can be transmitted from a person who has been infected by chickens or other foul to another person, but denies that it can be transmitted beyond the first person infected, this may also be false.
[Riehlworldview.com] Riehl World View: H5N1: Has Human To Human Transfer Begun?: The Avian flu that caused the 1918 Flu epidemic only killed between 2 or 3% of the people it infected and it still effectively wiped out some 20,000,000 people around the globe in only nine months. So I would not take much solace in the fact H5N1 may be losing some of it's lethality as it gains in it's efficiency to spread between humans as this is the natural course of influenza viruses anyway.
[Worldchanging.com] WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Pandemic Flu Awareness Week: However, the WHO has been roundly criticized by many working on H5N1 issues for downplaying the severity of the problem (search for "world health organization" on any of the Avian Flu blogs and sites linked to find examples).
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