Anyone beating the crowd, and preparing for bird flu?

[debtfreeme]

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

One thing to rememebr about 1918, we were in the middle of a war. We had almost no medical staff in the US at that time and they were pulling doctors out of "retirement" to work savig patients. there is a fascinating book about this that i cannot remember the name of...about pandemic, 18, and the one in the 60's. It is easy to read, not to hard vocabulary but fascinationg study of the pandemic.

[rob62521]

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

I know it's been awhile since the last post for this, but our newspaper had an article a couple of days ago saying that the feds are going to give the states help in preparing for the bird flu. I don't think we should panic, but being cautious and prepared would be wise.

As for the people who go in public sick, there's no way of stopping that, unfortunately! We have parents sending kids to school with a fever or had thrown up before school, most because they didn't want to deal with their kid. It's not because they were working and didn't have a babysitter, most of these folks don't work. They just want the schools (and society) to deal with it.

[jamreed02]

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

if you do a bit of research on previous flu epidemics, as well as research on the flu in general, you'll come to understand why people are worried about avian flu. I haven't got a stock pile of antiviral drugs, and I don't plan to, either. I'll leave them in the hands of the red cross when people start to get sick... which is much better than sitting in my medicine cabinet for the chance of me getting sick. hopefully, when the virus is capable of passing from human to human, they'll be able to contain it. But like all flu viruses, this one will probably be passed on before anyone even realizes that they're sick. The best ways to prepare seem to be having a small stockpile of food, a way to cook it without electricity, a supply of water that will last at least 3 days. And if the news mentions a case of human-to-human transferance, avoid public places that you don't absolutely need to be in. Also, wash your hands, take your vitamins, get some excersize and sunshine...

oh, and don't lick the chickens!

[jamreed02]

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

if anyone is still wondering what crazy bird would fly across the atlantic, I found a map of common bird flyways.

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/health/diseases-cards/migrationmap.html

there are studies showing that the migratory birds are passing the flu from one spot on their migratory patterns to other spots farther along in their migration (china to siberia). what interests me most is the large area of Alaska where the east asia flyway and the mississippi flyway cross.