The World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering building a stockpile

[Sally Furniss]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is considering building a stockpile of up to 60 million human vaccine for bird flu.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070010101

The doses are to be used by developing nations to counter any influenza pandemic.

The stockpile would address demands from countries led by Indonesia and Thailand.

The two nations want benefits for sharing samples of the deadly H5N1 virus, which are then used to develop commercial vaccines.

While bird flu is mainly an animal disease, experts fear it could mutate into a form that can be spread easily among people, triggering a possible pandemic which could kill millions. The virus has killed more than 180 people since 2003.

 

[Susie]

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While bird flu is mainly an animal disease, experts fear it could mutate into a form that can be spread easily among people, triggering a possible pandemic which could kill millions.

I wonder who first wrote that sentence - it turns up in so many articles now !

 

[gsgs]

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last year I typically saw an addendum instead about the number
of H5N1 deaths so far.

So people could say after reading:
ahh, all that fuss about only 100 deaths yearly ?

Now they feel the urge to better justify why they are reporting
about it at all, so they say that it could kill millions.
But the usual readers interpret this "could" as pretty unlikely.

Like an asteroid which 'could' destroy the earth

 

[chicken little]

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I am not as worried about a bird-flu pandemic as I was a year ago.Sure,there will be a global pandemic of some sort eventually,history repeating,but for now,I am content to eat my stock-pile of chilli beans and keep an eye on your very good web site.

 

[prepdeb]

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I think many of us have a lower anxiety level now than we did a year ago.

We have done a lot to prepare for a potential pandemic or any other emergency that might require long term food, alternative sources of water, heat and cooking methods because my anxiety level was high last year.

Even though I'm not as frightened as I was then, I'm glad we have acquired the supplies and knowledge to help us survive any emergency.

I still feel it's likely that H5N1 will eventually go pandemic, but who knows when that will happen. We are now using some of our stored goods and will retain those with the longest shelf life for any possibility that might require them. It gives me some comfort knowing that we have them.

 

[Treyfish]

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<TABLE width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>Vaccines for all in flu pandemic

By Ben Qu?r?e

EVERY man, woman and child in Jersey will be provided with two vaccines and a dose of Tamiflu when - not if - the World Health Organisation announces the start of a global flu pandemic.

</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><!-- $$IMAGELINE -->Yesterday ministers agreed to spend ?2 million on preparations for the pandemic - which the WHO predict will happen within five to ten years - to set up the highest protection standard anywhere in the world.

Every Islander will get a dose of Tamiflu, the H5N1 vaccine which is being stockpiled now, and a dose of the vaccine for the flu that causes the pandemic which will be developed within a few months of the pandemic's outbreak.

Medical Officer of Health Dr Rosemary Geller said that the Island was' buying a peace-of-mind package'. :tiphat:

http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/news3.html
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