The state of California and essentially all of the smaller governments inside like Counties and Cities are not ready for a flu crisis… and they never will be.  Today’s article in the LA Times goes into detail on all the reasons why we will never be "ready", ready meaning being able to give medical […]

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Are you prepared for the Bird Flu?  Or any natural disaster for that matter?  The Bird Flu is different in that we can see it coming from far away, so far away it leads to a false sense of security.  But it is spreading through wild birds worldwide and it will be here in the […]

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One of the more under reported elements of the Bird Flu story has been the economic impact on the regions with reported infected bird stock.  Fear of the Bird Flu could cripple economies even if it doesn’t make the leap to a human-human spread disease if public information efforts do not succeed in convincing the […]

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This is not saying that the Bird Flu pandemic has begun.  A story from the Daily Mail is reporting however that the virus is mutating and becoming more dangerous to humans:

Bird flu has mutated into a more dangerous form which could breed in humans, according to scientists.
The Vietnamese research has shown the bug is adapting […]

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Another post on the Bird Flu watch here.  Just in case you were wondering, and you should be really, we are not yet ready to stop a Bird Flu Pandemic.  There’s no way we will ever spend enough to be truly prepared, but apparently we have a good ways to go until we are as […]

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Thanks to Instanpundit for the link to this Nature piece that is a fictional blog simulating a potential Bird Flu Pandemic.  There are some rather pointed political points made, some good and some bad, but overall I think it is a fairly plausible description of how it could happen.  Here is one entry from later […]

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Reporting on the Bird Flu stories continues apace, with recent coverage of U.S. corporate readiness and lack thereof to respond to a Bird Flu Pandemic.  Readers of Deep Keel can look back in the archives for a discussion of personal readiness, which I recently acted on personally.  However corporate readiness is important as well.  It […]

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From today’s article at New Science.com entitled Official Chinese Bird Flu Deaths could be ‘tip of iceburg’:
A respected Japanese scientist, who works with the World Health Organization, has told New Scientist he fears that China’s official tally of laboratory-confirmed human bird flu fatalities – just three – is only the tip of the iceberg.

Masato Tashiro, […]

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There are a number of articles on this out today, you can read about it in the NY Times at the link here.
This is important news of a serious, even hurculean, task the Chinese have dedicated themselves to in order to try to halt the spread of the bird flu.  There are SOME benefits of […]

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In a move typical of a disease mutating to one that will be transmittable by humans, the avian bird flu has now been found infecting pigs in China.  Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for linking via Instapundit to Transterrestrial Musings, who links to this story at The Epoch Times:
Chinese officials revealed that pigs have tested positive […]

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