- Jul 25, 2002
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Bush Presents Bird Flu Plan . . .
and nobody notices ?
Come on people - he want's to put $ 7.1 Billion into the pockets of Pharmacuticals to give us a Vaccine in a year or two
and provide that defense to 20 Million Americans - out of a population of over 280 Million people, that's only 7% of the country.
Provided, of course, that the Pharmacutical Industry can be insulated and kept out of any possibility of lawsuit for negligence on their part.
OK - H5N1 has been watched closely since 1997 when it was discovered in South East Asia, around Vietnam and China,
and has killed a total of 62 people (that we know of) so far. All were working in the poultry business either handling, raising chickens and ducks,
or had consumed meat from infected stock.
As of yet there has not been that demon mutation that lets the virus pass directly from human to human,
and ducks are immune - although they are carriers.
The big threat is of course that dreaded mutation, and it has been found in the migratory bird population that travels from Asia into Europe.
Soon it will move into the migratory population of birds that travel between Europe and North America. Threat of Menace ?
Now the West Nile virus has already killed more people in the US than H5N1 has affected in the whole world,
and over the last 5 years little effort has been made to take control of this serious outbreak that
possibly could have been snuffed out in the first 2 years of it's transmission from the North East.
How about Ebola or other hemmoraghetic virus forms that have no cure and have killed thousands in Africa -
and are know to pass human to human.
Terrorist's put a sick individual on an airplane and send them on a farewell tour - big trouble.
and nobody notices ?
Come on people - he want's to put $ 7.1 Billion into the pockets of Pharmacuticals to give us a Vaccine in a year or two
and provide that defense to 20 Million Americans - out of a population of over 280 Million people, that's only 7% of the country.
Provided, of course, that the Pharmacutical Industry can be insulated and kept out of any possibility of lawsuit for negligence on their part.
OK - H5N1 has been watched closely since 1997 when it was discovered in South East Asia, around Vietnam and China,
and has killed a total of 62 people (that we know of) so far. All were working in the poultry business either handling, raising chickens and ducks,
or had consumed meat from infected stock.
As of yet there has not been that demon mutation that lets the virus pass directly from human to human,
and ducks are immune - although they are carriers.
The big threat is of course that dreaded mutation, and it has been found in the migratory bird population that travels from Asia into Europe.
Soon it will move into the migratory population of birds that travel between Europe and North America. Threat of Menace ?
Now the West Nile virus has already killed more people in the US than H5N1 has affected in the whole world,
and over the last 5 years little effort has been made to take control of this serious outbreak that
possibly could have been snuffed out in the first 2 years of it's transmission from the North East.
How about Ebola or other hemmoraghetic virus forms that have no cure and have killed thousands in Africa -
and are know to pass human to human.
Terrorist's put a sick individual on an airplane and send them on a farewell tour - big trouble.
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