Preparing for the Next Pandemic

also click here for a previous discussion about this and other news stories posted by ALIPAC members, I suggest reading this:

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-5316-flu.html

This is off the subject but here it is, but what if somehow an illegal, some illegals brought this into the country could happen...

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/18/1839
also via http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html (scroll down)

Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Annual influenza epidemics are like Minnesota winters â€â€

here is some more interesting reading on the same line.


http://www.mainepbs.org/quest/athome.shtml

that is a good website, thanks....

I try to keep up with those type of situations and the response to them.

just a little more on pandemic
Reuters - 2 hours, 36 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Half a million Americans could die and more than 2 million could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hits, a report predicted on Friday. But the United States only has 965,256 staffed hospital beds, said the report from the Trust for America's Health. The non-profit group's state-by-state analysis adds to a growing clamor of voices contending that the United States is not prepared for a large outbreak of disease, whether natural or brought on by war or terrorism.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/Health/Influenza

I have had the flu twice in the past 5 years. I wouldnt go to the hospital for anything.

If I understand it correctly, some of the flu vaccines actually spread the virus. Thanks but no thanks.

8O I've been reading about this all over. What could the United States do to help stop this from happening? Obviously, the borders, but with all of the air travel worldwide...could we stop it from happening?