Sorry i don't think i expressed myself well. As i said at the end i consider pandemics a real threat and i'm not against spending money on them. When i said i didn't understand everybody being in lockstep, what i meant is that there seems to be a high level of coordination between politicians and AP news releases RIGHT NOW to get the message out and that is what puzzles me. The urgency. Maybe people are receptive to the message because of katrina and they are taking advantage of that. Or maybe h5n1 has already mutated? I know there was a rumor that this had happened in north vietnam.
lol sorry, its just that every day I hear people going things will never happen, but its things that happen in regular occurrence. Like shock they have earthquakes in california, but there are people who belieave san francisco or las angelas will never ever get one. Or people who belieave there will be never a hurricane that will hit the gulf. Its stuff thats, common sense that will happen, if people take the proper precautions the effects can be mininmize.
what about tyson foods, and campbells. There meat and butter a chicken noodle soups or soup products.
Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated Ian Sample, science correspondent Thursday October 6, 2005 The Guardian Scientists have recreated the 1918 Spanish flu virus, one of the deadliest ever to emerge, to the alarm of many researchers who fear it presents a serious security risk. Undisclosed quantities of the virus are being held in a high-security government laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, after a nine-year effort to rebuild the agent that swept the globe in record time and claimed the lives of an estimated 50 million people. The genetic sequence is also being made available to scientists online, a move which some fear adds a further risk of the virus being created in other labs. The recreation was carried out in an attempt to understand what made the 1918 outbreak so devastating. Reporting in the journal Science, a team lead by Dr Jeffery Taubenberger at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Maryland shows that the recreated virus is extremely effective. When injected into mice, it quickly took hold and they started to lose weight rapidly, shedding 13% of their original weight in just two days. Within six days, all mice injected with the virus had died. In a comparison experiment, similar mice were injected with a contemporary strain of flu, and although the mice lost weight initially, they recovered. Tests revealed that the Spanish flu virus multiplied so rapidly that after four days, mice contained 39,000 times more flu virus than those injected with the more common strain of flu. The government and military researchers who reconstructed the virus say their work has already provided invaluable insight into its unique genetic make-up and helps explain its lethality. But other researchers warned yesterday the that virus could escape from the laboratory. "This will raise clear questions among some as to whether they have really created a biological weapon," said Professor Ronald Atlas at the centre for deterrence of biowarfare and bioterrorism at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Publication of the work and the filing of the virus's genetic make-up to an online database followed an emergency meeting last week by the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which concluded that the benefits of publishing the work outweighed the risks. Many scientists remained sceptical. "Once the genetic sequence is publicly available, there's a theoretical risk that any molecular biologist with sufficient knowledge could recreate this virus," said Dr John Wood, a virologist at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in Potters Bar.
(where) Can you buy anti virals without prescription?India?Can you buy over the internet and get what you think you're getting?PM me if you know.
http://www.erosmeds.com/?OVRAW=bird flu&OVKEY=bird flu&OVMTC=standard http://www.oie.int/downld/AVIAN INFLUENZA/graph HPAI 30092005.pdf http://www.oie.int/downld/AVIAN INFLUENZA/A_AI-Asia.htm
do you think that avian flu might actually be in the United states already. This seems like the mad cow thing where the government knew for months that mad cow was already in the united, but they decided to wait for months for comfirmation results.
I was in Asia during SARS. It won't be the bug that is the threat so much as the panic and fear. Only several dozen (?) died during SARS and parts of the region practically shut down. It will be the panic and quarantines that have the biggest impact. If the virus starts spreading we'll short all types of public transport and lodging as that is ideal means to contract the germ.