What is CDC doing to prepare for a possible H5N1 flu pandemic?
CDC is taking part in a number of pandemic prevention and preparedness
activities, including:
Working with the Association of Public Health Laboratories on training
workshops for state laboratories on the use of special laboratory
(molecular) techniques to identify H5 viruses.
Working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and
others to help states with their pandemic planning efforts.
Working with other agencies such as the Department of Defense and the
Veterans Administration on antiviral stockpile issues.
Working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Vietnamese
Ministry of Health to investigate influenza H5N1 in Vietnam and to
provide help in laboratory diagnostics and training to local
authorities.
Performing laboratory testing of H5N1 viruses.
Starting a $5.5 million initiative to improve influenza surveillance in
Asia.
Holding or taking part in training sessions to improve local capacities
to conduct surveillance for possible human cases of H5N1 and to detect
influenza A H5 viruses by using laboratory techniques.
Developing and distributing reagents kits to detect the currently
circulating influenza A H5N1 viruses.
Working together with WHO and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
on safety testing of vaccine seed candidates and to develop additional
vaccine virus seed candidates for influenza A (H5N1) and other subtypes
of influenza A virus.
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From Above:
"Working with other agencies such as the Department of Defense and
the Veterans Administration on antiviral stockpile issues."
There working with the DoD alright but not
just about antiviral stockpiles. They have scenarios for total lock
downs of towns and cities. There will be no bugging out to anywhere.
Were not talking about the National Gaurd comming to your town,. The US
Armed Forces will come to enforce the Marshal Law. Out of all the
possible events that could happen out side of a nuke going off in a
major city this is the most likely one to happen I my life time. The
news media has been down playing the roll of the US Armed Forces in the
event of a major outbreak stating that they will just be shutting down
airports and major highways if that. Man whatever! They will lock you
down and let you die out in order to control the outbreak. Or maybe
not, they could just sit around and talk about things while people are
dying like in N.O.
Read full CDC Article Here:
http://www.netcomhost.net/wordpress/key-facts-about-avian-influenza-bird-flu-and-avian-influenza-a-h5n1-virus/
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10 Oct 2005 10:20:11 PM |
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I remember a lot of concern over SARS, but it turned out to be mostly
nothing. It's easy to assume that the Avian Flu will be the next
pandemic, but do you really think they've pinpointed the problem and
the outbreak? To me it's just more paranoia coming from the news media.
And if that paranoia has helped them contained this deadly virus, then
kudos to all who have been involved in its research.
The real question is not what the virus/bacteria will be, it's when
it'll be.
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11 Oct 2005 10:43:14 AM |
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Let me help you with something. Between 1968 and 1997, there was not a
single case of a bird virus being transmitted between a bird and a
human. Since then there have been hundreds of cases, many resulting in
deaths.
This virus has had 8 years to mutate and adapt. It is no longer
isolated to Asia, having appeared now in the Near East and Europe. It
parallels in every way to the pandemic of 1918-1919.
This is not media paranoia. Read the WHO web site. I don't know if a
pandemic is indeed imminent, but it is definitely inevitable. And when
it comes, there will be no natural immunity, and unlike 1918 we will
have international travel and trade, commerical airliners and more to
spread the virus more quickly.
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