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  • New York ahead of the avian flu disaster preparation

    June 24 - (AP New York) - Municipal Health Bureau and the Department of Emergency Management at New York University a few days ago the city for business meetings held throughout the day to discuss the circumstances of the disaster emergency response measures. The meeting discussed the range of possible disasters, including terrorist attacks, Heating pipeline explosion, but the focus of the meeting is the avian influenza outbreak.

    Municipal Health Bureau is responsible for Disease Control deputy director of the Weiss Fu (Isaac B. Weisfuse) to the meeting of about 300 business people pointed out that since large-scale regularly recurring disease, the possibility of a global bird flu virus is now variant The pandemic in this century a time of the outbreak. Fu said Weiss, New York, local governments and commercial organizations of all sizes and every family of every person must be prepared.
    New York City may also make preparations for the great plague. Weiss announced that the city rich reserves of 25 million surgical masks PPE, but so many masks for a city of 8 million population is only enough to use day and a half, because epidemiologists suggested daily use of two such masks. The city reserves sufficient to support anti-influenza drug five-day treatment of 2 million population, which is in accordance with the flu usually attacks 25 percent the proportion of the population expected. Weiss Fu also said that all businessmen to decide for themselves whether they reserve their own anti-flu drugs, and to bear the cost of drugs to update every five years.

    In the 20th century, the influenza in 1918,1957 and 1968 in the global outbreak, a maximum of 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed.[?] (http://www.dajiyuan.com)

    6/24/2008 11:46:39 AM
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