Avian Bird flu
Bad news from China about Avian Bird flu from Mike Lascelles:
Even most Chinese researchers don’t know what the hell is going on. It’s all a state secret and you can get seven years in the nick for talking to foreigners about it. The WHO is a joke there – they are so afraid of upsetting the Chinese government they will do nothing. They should be jumping up and down and threatening to pull out of China and set up in Taiwan instead (bizarrely, WHO doesn’t recognise the 20-odd million people who live in Taiwan, their health needs are not WHO’s problem).
I know for a fact that China has had a lot more cases of bird flu in both birds and humans [including deaths] than they are mentioning officially.
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There is a wiki for Influenza Pandemic, the Flu Wiki
http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Main.HomePage
The good people there have declared October 3-9 Pandemic Flu Awareness Week:
http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Main.PFAW
“The purpose of Pandemic Flu Awareness Week, and the Flu Wiki, is to allow the dissemination of information down to the local level so that everyone can use each others’ experience, planning and ideas so as not to be left unawares should an actual pandemic occur. Like hurricanes, when a pandemic occurs can not be accurately predicted. Nonetheless, that which can be done in advance should be done, because eventually something will happen. Planning can only help, even if at the local level it can’t prevent.”
Don’t miss the Personal Pandemic Preparedness page:
http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Consequences.PandemicPreparednessGuides
Tara Smith, writing in her blog Aetiology, is doing a post a day.
Monday: History of Pandemic Influenza
http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day.html
Tuesday: Our Adventures with Avian Flu
http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day_04.html