Anyone beating the crowd, and preparing for bird flu?

**Bruce Wayne** · 10-18-2005, 05:45 AM

Re: Anyone beating the crowd, and preparing for bird flu?

There aren't any cures for this are there because its a new virus?

**Dingoluv4eva** · 10-18-2005, 05:58 AM

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Some of the anti-viral meds work against it.
I forgot the names of the top of my head..

there is one by Roche that is effective but not in all people (temaflu??) maybe..
there is another one, that is advertised as a lot more effective..

**PRICEPLUS** · 10-18-2005, 08:19 AM

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Tamiflu. Somewhat expensive but the point is mute as there is little to be had.

**sweeps** · 10-18-2005, 09:52 AM

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At least one strain of bird flu is immune to Tamiflu. Fortunately, the Tamiflu-resistant virus doesn't spread as easily.

If you're going to hole yourself up in a bunker, you may want to stock on Relenza too.

**frugalfarmwife** · 10-18-2005, 02:08 PM

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Well, I quit kissing our chickens

Seriously though, although the flu is deadly I have to many other things to worry about on any given day that are closer to home.

A few years ago the huge scare was West Niles, I actually had two horses that contract it fairly severely and we nursed them back to health, I'm sure more of our horses were also exposed but had minor/no reaction. A healthy immune system is the most important thing is animals and humans.

I'd just about bet I've been exposed to the West Niles, EIA, etc. All part of life on a farm.

KJ

**debtfreeme** · 10-21-2005, 02:08 PM

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not worried about it yet. When it begins to change to humans with the same contact at the bird flu then i might. But with exposure being limited to avian workers and farmers, not as worried for me. I am worried for the farmers though!

but since the contraction rate is so small, i am not worried for people as much as I am for the bird population. I think it is fascinating how it is moving accross the world.

**baselle** · 10-21-2005, 06:36 PM

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I don't think you can buy or stock up on Tamiflu.

But I have been preparing a bit. What if it was suggested that people not congregate or go to work or work from home? Not quite a quarantine, but if you are living paycheck to paycheck, possibly debilitating. What if there are only skeletal crews working at utility companies? What if people can't work at your grocery store?

I've stocking up a bit on food, water, chicken stock (hah hah), aspirin, vitamins, other prepared foods. We have a camp stove with propane, a couple bottles of hand sanitizer, and a decent enough first aid kit I bought when the Red Cross came to sell stuff at the workplace. I'm not going crazy or anything, but I figure we need to make our household self sufficient for about 5-6 days at a time.

This is also a good time to get into good hygiene habits - wash hands more frequently, cough or sneeze in elbow (not in your hands), use the hand sanitizer, get the flu shot. It won't make me bullet-proof, but it covers the bases.

**sweeps** · 10-21-2005, 06:46 PM

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It has crossed my mind that, if there were an outbreak, I would indefinitely work from home. Being stuck on the commuter train with people hacking up bird flu phlegm is not very appealing to me.

I wonder if we'll start seeing face masks like they had in Asia during the SARS outbreak. I wasn't taking this seriously before, but now I'm starting to wonder.

**Tree0164** · 10-22-2005, 02:56 AM

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No I really haven't thought too much about it. But if does gets closer to home, I think we will take precautions.

**Dingoluv4eva** · 10-22-2005, 06:26 PM

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What kinda crazy bird migrates across the atlantic from europe to USA anyways, thats gonna keep us safe i would think.,

**_yb** · 10-22-2005, 07:38 PM

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My wife does something with the SNS so I think we will have access to vaccines. I'm not worried about it at all. I would be more concerned with small pox.

**Tree0164** · 10-23-2005, 02:45 AM

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Originally posted by Dingoluv4eva

What kinda crazy bird migrates across the atlantic from europe to USA anyways, thats gonna keep us safe i would think.,

Well it is not necessarily birds but the humans that will come across the Atlantic

**PRICEPLUS** · 10-23-2005, 12:32 PM

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There was an excellent article about the bird flu in National Geographic Magazine last month I believe. Take a trip to the library as it is I think a must read!

**sweeps** · 01-14-2006, 04:17 PM

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UPDATE: Flu virus resistant to 2 drugs

Anyone beating the crowd, and preparing for bird flu?