As Revere notes, this week is Pandemic Influenza Awareness Week. I'll have some posts on this after today (still swamped, with no end in sight, unfortunately); in the meantime, check out all the info already available at the Flu Wiki.
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I am sure I have talked about this stuff before, but it came up recently in a discussion so I figured I should put it here.
Let me draw a picture of learning.
The deadliest cyclone ever is said to have been the 1970 Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh. Perhaps a half million people died in that storm. That would be more than the number who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Just when we thought that Dirty Jerse had hit rock bottom, its rivers and forests have become overrun with a slimy, invasive species of eel that can live for months during droughts and change sex if necessary in order to keep reproducing.
Pandemic Flu Awareness Week.
hmmmmmm As opposed to what though?
Not really caring about the possibility of the bird flu virus, mutating in to a Pandemic Flu virus, for the rest of the year?
I am amazed that we need to designate a period of seven special days, when we can all collectively meditate on the potential pandemic.
I suppose this does provide "meaningful" occupation, for a period of time, for all the good folks at the WHO and other such Quangos!
The-Best-Bird-Flu-Blogs-Team.
www.birdflubreakingnews.com
Not at all, and certainly you're aware that Revere and I (and the other good people behind the Awareness week) write about flu regularly. This just serves to highlight the potential of pandemic influenza to those who might not be so aware of it; to bring it to the forefront of infectious disease issues for a few days.