[Daculling]

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Alcohol wipes or the waterless hand cleaner, or eave n a spray bottle with bleach solution to take on public trips.

Others?

[evilmonkeyspanker]

If it kills 500 million people, I will start believing in god and I will go back to church this is given the fact I am not one of the 500

[Pops]

Preparing for the Coming
Influenza Pandemic
By Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP

http://fluwikie.com/uploads/Consequence ... deOct5.pdf

27 pg pdf

First step in preparing: make a will. – Ouch!

Lots of practical info, thanks to tropicalfish on TB2k for finding it.

[Golgo13]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('auctionmonster', 'I')f it kills 500 million people, I will start believing in god and I will go back to church this is given the fact I am not one of the 500

[Pops]

Here are a couple news sites,

I like this one, no comment just reports to the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1000

CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/index.htm

[KevO]

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-re ... jsp?id=891

How you can get involved in a Channel 4 News Special.

On Wednesday October 12, Channel 4 News will be devoting a large part of the programme to bird flu, examining the extent of the risk faced by the UK, and finding out just how well prepared we are for it spreading to humans.

Health experts reckon that's inevitable, and believe millions of people worldwide could die.


Not everyone's convinced, and you can be sure there'll be some pretty lively argument in the studio.

We want you to take part as well, so please e-mail us from tonight with the questions YOU want answered about bird flu. We'll do our best to answer them on Channel 4 News.

Email the team at news@channel4.com



Read some of your emails here

Were planning to get half a dozen chickens to keep free range in our garden in November. Should we do that? Will it put our two young children at risk? - Alastair Reid.

It appears that we are largely dealing with uncertainty, but how real is the risk that the disease will mutate passing from human to human. - Sam Bennett (Swindon)


We have an 11 month old child. Should we worry about his ability to cope with bird flu? Is he at a greater or lesser risk than an adult? Is there anything preventative we can do?- Eric Barfield. Surrey

What's the plan to maintain essential services like power, water, rubbish collection? And, how safe will the water be? - Susan Hennsler

Are the Government going to request an immunisation programme throughout the country? - Rakesh Rawal

When millions are quoted as being at risk of dying, who are we talking about? The old, the young, the poor, those in cities, in which countries? Is it anticipated that certain groups would be more susceptible? - Zak Ireson

What drugs would be used to treat a human form of the virus and where can one obtain them? - Lexie Stoddart

How does a virus mutates from an animal to humans? How much time is needed for the virus to do so? - Gildas Pinot

[BabyPeanut]

Your link doesn't work and you know you aren't supposed to start new bird flu threads.

[KevO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', 'Y')our link doesn't work and you know you aren't supposed to start new bird flu threads.

[EnemyCombatant]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')re the Government going to request an immunisation programme throughout the country? - Rakesh Rawal

[bobaloo]

Damn you, I thought this was a great buying opportunity for prep supplies!

That's a confusing subject title.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnemyCombatant', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')re the Government going to request an immunisation programme throughout the country? - Rakesh Rawal

[rogerhb]

Parrot that died in UK quarantine diagnosed with avian flu

No guv, it's resting, it's tired after a really long squawk.

[Flow]

With all of this talk about the upcoming Bird Flu pandemic everywhere you look you would think there would be more coverage of Peak Oil.

With regards to the Bird Flu, experts have predicted that if the Bird Flu were to mutate to the point that it could be transmited from human to human that about 150 million people would die worldwide. All this by the way from the fact that 60 out of 120 that have gotten the bird flu have died.

The media said the same thing about SARS, West Nile (etc but not to the extent of Bird Flu). Why? Because fear sells. The more people that are worried about Bird Flu, the more they will be glued to Fox News and CNN to see if it has mutated today.

Now Bird Flu could wipe out 150 million people. The ramifications of Peak Oil according to the experts on that subject is that 4 billion people could die of starvation. Talk about fear - they could make way more money from telling people Peak Oil is right around the corner than they could with Bird Flu.

So my question is, why do we almost never hear a word about Peak Oil when 4 billion people are going to die sometime soon (time to be announced at a later date)?

[Starvid]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Flow', 'S')o my question is, why do we almost never hear a word about Peak Oil when 4 billion people are going to die sometime soon (time to be announced at a later date)?

[Andrew_S]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Flow', 'T')he ramifications of Peak Oil according to the experts on that subject is that 4 billion people could die of starvation. Talk about fear - they could make way more money from telling people Peak Oil is right around the corner than they could with Bird Flu.

So my question is, why do we almost never hear a word about Peak Oil when 4 billion people are going to die sometime soon (time to be announced at a later date)?

[GrizzAdams]

I think the reason peak oil hasn't become a completely public issue is, because it wouldn't do anything good for the market. Except a few niche companies that make wind, solar power and such. I think that peak oil rationality might stop most people from mass consuming, and therefore hurting the fragile market.

[coyote]

It's because most people simply don't believe in such a concept yet. It's unimaginable to most. Very intelligent people I know dismiss the matter out of hand. I don't suppose journalists are much different.

[elroy]

A little fear will drive people into escapism, consuming, a lot of fear will drive people batty.

[Flow]

There is a lot of money in fear in the news. And being how there are two sides to the debate, it could be presented in manner that was not as "doomsday-ish." But it could be presented in a way that was enough to scare people into thinking about the consequences of their actions and get people to start conserving.

Could the overall message not be "Peak Oil is a reality and have a very strong chance of coming in the next 20 years, if we don't fix this here is what could happen (insert doomsday scenerios)."

This would get people writting their congressmen, put the pressure on auto manufactures to develop ultra-conservative vehicles, etc....

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Flow', '
')Could the overall message not be "Peak Oil is a reality and have a very strong chance of coming in the next 20 years, if we don't fix this here is what could happen (insert doomsday scenerios)."