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panic + dem = pandemic
Pretty spooky.
BO
something that doesn't exist (but feasibly might) is now a pandemic that will definitely kill tens of thousands of us. or is it hundreds?
i blame asylum seekers, they are always thinking up plots like this, importing bird flu, just to reduce maliciously the value of YOUR property. and celebrities are great.
You could soon be wiped out by the palm oil plantations in Indonesia now the fighting in Aceh province has been sorted by the Tsunami.
Depressed, BO
Assuming that Tamiflu proves effective as an aniti-virus that is! Here's hoping!
BO
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and you all dont know aboutyour renal failure
the "bird flu pandemic" has killed about 60 people in Asia
60
not 60 million on a densely populated continent where people live in close proximity with livestock and have less of the health care resources of more industrialised countries
vaccine/antibiotic resistant flu will be a much more challenging pandemic a few years down the line
So there's no point panicking (won't do any good), but there's also no harm in being prepared.
Here (if I can get it to work...) is a link to the NHS guidelines. We are at phase 3 right now, possibly verging on phase 4, out of 6.
NHS Flu Pandemic Contingency Plan (pdf)
BO
If's, if is mutates, if it becomes easily catchable by us poor humans - not when.
We should all be dead now from CJD, salmonella (sp), asestoso (sp) etc etc.
It is all scare - mongering (so many sp's) The government should be spending money on real diseases that exist and not wasting money on sleeper contracts for something that may never exist.
(Sorry rant over I just get really annoyed over these things)
(also should apologise for spelling - so sorry)
God - I'm rubbish at typing when I'm mad :-(
I would just like to point out to jog' (just out of interest not as a critisims) that in this country much research is carried out in acadmia and it is the universities and funding bodies that decide who and what gets funding.
However, if it is a serious disease of high containment (there is talk of making the human bird flu mutant cat 5!!)there are only govement facilities capable of carrying out this research.
What make me laugh most about all of this is i work somewhere where state of the art research is being carried out yet the building is falling apart around us. It is common to have power cuts and water leaks including in the cat 3 labs!!
Rant over, i'm sure we all get miffed by work at some point or other!!
Asbestosis I think. I agree that the government doesn't generally have its priorities right. I also suspect that half the reason for this is that we live in a democracy and the media get the public worked up about "news" rather than important issues.
The other half is that we don't like paying taxes.
BO
Even if you consider it to be an 'if' that's still no reason for the government not to spend money on it. Just think what would be the reaction if the next mutant turns out to be something really nasty and the government hadn't taken precautions they could have?
Of course a really nasty bug might solve a few problems by wiping out excess numbers of humans. The black death was bad news for a lot of people but brought prosperity for many of those that survived. But governments can't think like that *EG*
The point of risk management is to address potential threats so that "if" they happen, we are prepared.
It is possible to occupy a position between complacency and outright panic. I hope that is what the government will do.
More people probably get killed by lightning in a year, literally.
The best thing now is,
WE'VE GOT TO ASK BRUSSELS FOR PERMISSION TO REFUSE LIVESTOKC FROM INFECTED COUNTRIES.
Nice.
I am all for banning importing wild birds because its cruel, and if it stops the spread of bird flu then even better.
There were two flu pendemics(?sp) last century, one in 1918 which killed more people than the first world war, and the other was in the 1950s, apparently these things tend to happen every 50 years or so.
I will worry when and if it mutants.
Problem is, I think most of the deaths are the result of ilegal and/or badly controlled traid. You'd have to think about banning traid in pet birds too, and you'd still have some smuggling problem.
It also wouldn't help much with this problem. The only UK case was in Quarantine, and quarantine did what it was supposed to... Bird flu will probably arrive in Britain shortly via wild birds anyway. And the mutant if/when it happens could happen anywhere in world and then will spread via humans not birds.
(That's bird for boom boom)
PS: going back to the original post in this thread, are plumbers considered a priority catagory?