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Bird Flu In The News | 3 comments (3 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

H5N1 :: Three Die in Indonesia (none / 0)

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~ Posted in earlier diary ~

Being watched closely for years by CDC, European experts and World Organizations.
The human to human form can launch a world epidemic similar to the Spanish flu of 1918 ... or worse.

News from Indonesia

Three people have died of suspected avian influenza in Indonesia, health authorities said yesterday.

If confirmed, they would be the first human fatalities in the country from the H5N1 bird flu virus, which experts fear could cause millions of deaths worldwide if it mutates into a form that can be easily transmitted between people.

The victims, a 38-year-old man from a suburb of Jakarta and his two daughters aged nine and one, died within 10 days of each other.

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Diary Serie London Bombings ◊ @ BooMan

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by Oui on Thu Jul 21st, 2005 at 05:26:11 PM EST

Does this surprise anyone? (none / 0)

This doesn't surprise me, with all the unsanitary conditions that I see in the pictures.

Think of how much less of a risk we would be running of this if all the aid currently going towards the war were to be spent on economic development abroad.

I wonder if Bush will use this pandemic as an excuse to curtail civil liberties even more.

Conservatism is Dead!

by Eternal Hope on Thu Jul 21st, 2005 at 10:36:08 PM EST
[ Parent ]

For those who may be wondering (none / 1)

For those who may be wondering why health care workers, government officials, emergency personnel, morticians, etc. are in groups 1-3 and "the rest of us" are in group 4, the answer is not "because they can" although some might think that. These folks are going to be the ones trying to prevent not only infection but also mass hysteria and bedlam from breaking out, and you can hardly expect them to put themselves on the front lines without proper defense. In fact, it is not uncommon for the immediate families of these personnel to also be offered early vaccinations, so that (1) the family member on the front line can concentrate on protecting the public and not worry about their family, which would distract from their duties mightily and (2) as an incentive to keep these essential personnel from heading for the hills - literally - when the outbreak hits. They're the ones who are going to know first when things are heading south, and again, if they are torn between protecting their families and the wider community, it is anticipated that a "significant number" (just what that means I'll leave to each person's sense of the good in their neighbors) would opt to put their families first. Human nature hasn't changed since the middle ages, folks, and a mass exodus from the cities was a common occurrence when the plague was headed their way. Little known but true fact: Newton was out in the countryside sitting under the legendary apple tree because he had left London due to an epidemic.

I've seen some preparation planning scenarios for either a bioterrorist event or a natural pandemic, and mass quarantine of cities or states (a "cordon sanitaire" in public health parlance) with armed officers blocking the highways is not at all out of the question. Not to scare anybody, but this is the real world. We've been living with a false sense of security since the 1918 pandemic... :-(

Full disclosure: My great-grandfather died in the 1918 flu pandemic, shortly after emigrating to Philadelphia from Italy.

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Thu Jul 21st, 2005 at 08:57:10 PM EST

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