http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/25/content_5245020.htm
The story above, about the possibility of vectors in North America, would I thought of raised a lot more concern than I am seeing. Is there a reason for this? I don’t think the warning signs for individuals to prepare en masse will get much clearer.
There’s been “low” path H5N1 found in N.America before. Even though that can mutate into high path, my concern’s been high; I’ve been trying to prepare, for a long while already, and there are so many continents H5N1 can’t really be monitored on, and so many mammals and birds, and people getting it, that I think it will go pandemic and come in on a few planes of human travellers.
Blue, just getting the news out to the public that the WHO and other places started warning about a bad pandemic influenza pandemic (disruption, deaths) a year ago, and they are a year behind, get started, would be an improvement, at this point.
If the public understood they will be on their own if it happens next month; no vaccines, no meds around here for them and their families. (Despite all the drills mentioning handing these out -we don’t have ‘em.) Every other place in the same crisis, so, no outsiders coming to feed or rescue them… Some people won’t believe until people here die from it, but more community preparation should be taking place with what we know already; we can’t stop it is if goes pandemic, and it may stay deadly. Most people aren’t prepared for the shorter emergencies they should be anyway; preparation won’t hurt them.
You’re having Spring down there, Blue? Get out and enjoy it for me.
Yeh, will do-I went down the mall today…that’s what we do in Perth. Or the beach_ Beach tomorrow! Say, did you read the article? I should’ve put «!Achtung!» on top of it like I did in the other threads. (Haven’t been here for a while and apparently it was posted up a coupla’days ago.)
So, maybe they’re swabbing the wrong ends ;-) But also they need to be testing mammals, I’d think, too.
Blue, I am not as worried about sick birds at this late date as I am some of the human cases in Asia (or, who even knows what’s going on in Africa? Can’t test enough birds, mammals, nor people there, either) hitting the viral jackpot for H5N1 and a transmissible form reaching the airports and transfer flights(and not being noticed until all those contacts have gone back to work and schools…)