I’m sure this won’t inspire any panic or anything
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – When burying a body in the backyard, don’t put it too close to the septic system. That was one piece of advice offered on Wednesday to a business conference on preparing for a potentially lethal bird flu andemic.
Preparations for a global flu pandemic, which many experts believe is overdue, have begun but the grisly details are horrific and the number of sick could quickly overwhelm the health care system.
Needed supplies of even common medical supplies such as surgical masks and gloves are in doubt, not to mention the syringes needed for an as-yet undeveloped vaccine and costly mechanical ventilators.
The H5N1 avian flu virus that has infected flocks on at least three continents and killed 91 people could be the virus that experts fear will mutate into a highly pathogenic form that kills hundreds of millions of people in a matter of weeks or months.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=11229138&src=rss/healthNews
Personally, I think this is another SARS type of overreaction. However, it was most disturbing when the prez started talking
about potential martial law to enforce quarantines a few months back.
Here’s a link to an article about that for those who’ve missed it or blocked it from memory:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/bush.avianflu/