Can someone please tell me any recent developments with H5N1? I haven’t been on in a while and don’t want to have to read through everything. lol. After the Karo cluster, has anything major happened? Thank you!
M2M— I’d say go ahead and read the News Threads for the past few weeks — AnieB has been summarizing the basic news (with links) from the day before and you can get a good update that way!
Yeah, there’s been some stuff going on….
Check out the Indonesia thread — the one that ends with NO COMMENTARY in the title. On the first page near the top is a map that gives you a visual of all the recent cases. Lots of activity; however as yet it isn’t “tripping switches” to send us off in a panic.
Since you might have to scroll to find the specific thread, here is a link to it http://tinyurl.com/k9vm9
Mommy2Mya. Hi Good to see you again.
I guess the way I would put it is that there has been more background noise then last summer, most of it occuring in Indonesia but also in both Vietnam and Thailand, the ‘poster children’ for the World Health Organization.
There has been a lot of secrecy by those that you would expect it from but also unexpectedly from the World Health Organization. I expect that we will know the reason for the secrecy in the next few weeks as things develop a little further.
The bottom line…it is a good time to keep your ear close to the ground…
Are we closer to a pandemic? That’s a tough one…I think so but I may be prejudiced because I have felt it would be this winter-spring for more than two years…Others may want to comment on this…I hope I turn out to be wrong in the end and H5N1 goes away never to return.
The risk hasn’t changed. I just restored the preps we ate over the last couple of months when I was starting to believe it was going away.
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