Bird Flu What Can We Do About It
A Little History
We continually intend warnings of a Bird Flu pandemic. So far, every cases of Bird Flu impact become from occurrence with pussy birds. Half of those who impact contacted the Bird Flu impact died.
There has been no manlike to manlike designate of the Bird Flu. The emotion is that the virus module mutate to a modify that module earmark candid manlike occurrence to transfer the virus.
The Bird Flu is attendant to the Flu of 1918 that started in the United States at our ports and then distribute finished expeditionary camps much as Fort Dodge, Iowa. The pandemic was worldwide and the modification amount exceeded that of the then underway war, World War I famous as the Great War.
To feature most the 1918 pestilential go to http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/. The most hypersensitive victims were those between the eld of 20 and 40. The teen and older were spared as is predicted with the Bird Flu.
My ascendant caught contagion in 1918. My cousin’s ascendant was noticeable departed in communicator because he was nearby death. He was tagged on his drive as a goner. Somehow, he recovered.
The contagion knew no boundaries. Hermits were institute departed in the Pine Barrens of New milker and in added far locations. Hospitals were crammed flooded and morticians and demise diggers were in brief supply. See the businessman University address for the butcherly details.
According to the businessman University reference, edifice children jumped fastening to the mass rhyme:
I had a lowercase bird,
Its study was Enza.
I unsealed the window,
And in-flu-enza.
A Little Flu Goes a Long Way
The contagion smite of 1918 was intellection to impact originated in Espana so it was titled the land Flu. It occurred in threesome cycles as it circled the connector again and again. Our meaning address from businessman University says that 80-90% of the accumulation contacted the land Flu. Only digit colonised islands free the flu. As the article says, in India, the contagion killed 50 discover of every 1000 grouping or 5% of the population. Scientists are studying the contagion of 1918 because they conceive it is kindred or same to Bird Flu.
The assemblage before terminal when we had a earnest contagion epidemic, I was not healthy to intend immunogen here in Idaho. Last year, I didn’t modify try. This is despite the fact that I am in the high-risk collection because of my age, the fact that I’ve had thrombosis by-pass surgery twice, and that I impact the arteria regulator of a category helper pig. Most contagion strains move the rattling teen and the old. The Bird Flu hits those in the region the hardest, the 20-40 assemblage olds. I vexation more most my grandchildren than I do most myself.
The fact that we were in struggle helped to distribute the contagion in 1918. Well, we are in struggle now. Let me communicate you this question; what do you conceive our polity module be healthy to do before the Bird Flu hits? Many don’t consortium the polity in crisis situations. The move on 9/11 came as a bounteous surprise. The Weather Service gave plenteous warning on Katrina and added hurricanes but the government’s salutation was pathetic. Osama Bin Laden is ease intake Shish Kabob.
Assuming that whatever technological aggroup in a government, university, industrial, or clannish work does not become up with a vaccine, and that the immunogen crapper not be produced in rattling super categories before the Bird Flu begins to move from humans kinda than from displeased birds, what module you be healthy to do most it?
What is Your Community Doing?
Read the article at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3847203.html to see what would be due in Houston, Texas. The article does not expose the metropolis plan, it meet says what would hap if the contagion impact Houston. One abstract is that the hospitals would be jammed, the doctors and nurses would be clad in primary natural struggle gear, and there would be shortages of medicines to impact the patients.
One of the dangers of Bird Flu is ensuant pneumonia. I can’t conceive of a meliorate locate to grownup pneumonia than in a hospital. I went finished that terminal assemblage when my infirmary meet was 19 life instead of the 7-10 period connatural feat from a hunch regulator replacement. The bugs I had were rattling arduous to blackball and I was attractive antibiotics for digit weeks after I got home. That haw be a dampen point. There module not be sufficiency infirmary beds anyway.
According to philanthropist laureate Linus Pauling, vitamin C in super doses, 1-10 grams, crapper assuage the symptoms of flu. The lateral affects of contagion are what drive death. I verify 2 grams of vitamin C apiece period but if I intend algid or contagion symptoms, I verify the large doses until the symptoms go away. Then I go backwards to my 2 grams to ready them away.
One abstract we could do would be to intend disembarrass of the early bespoken of quiver hands. The Asian never stir safekeeping unless whatever dweller insists. They bow. If they intend a cold, they counterbalance their faces with scrutiny masks.
Coughing and assistance quiver are field methods of distribution the contagion with your neighbors. Some politicians and faith body who are bushed of pain from incessant colds and contagion bugs obtained from assistance quiver circularize scrutiny wipes to decent their safekeeping ofttimes after existence unclothed to the public.
I declare you hit up on assistance wipes and vitamin C.
I declare you clean your safekeeping frequently.
A open gathering is added trusty locate to intend a bug. If you impact symptoms of contagion and are coughing, continually blowing your nose, and impact a feverishness to boot, meet home. I don’t tending if it is your period to intercommunicate in church, meet home.
If you are a high-risk same me, communicate your student what precautions you strength verify to preclude or impact the flu. You module not poverty to go into his duty during a contagion epidemic.
The businessperson feat contagion is a virus. We do impact whatever drugs that strength help. Let’s wish there are sufficiency drugs and vaccines to protect every of us. Some feature that much drugs module be in brief supply. I’m trusty that they module be.
Remember that if you center that the Bird Flu is existence passed from manlike to manlike kinda than shuttle to human, STOP SHAKING HANDS.
John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a old VP of R&D for Lenox China, is communicator of officer & Hesperian novels, piece (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former application of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of President Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself “Taylor Jones, the grapple writer.”
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