Did they 'Fix it' or forget it ? Are we STILL all going to die once it mutates to pigs or was it just another terror story to sell drugs ?
2006-09-26 21:19:22 · 13 answers · asked by Fishtalk 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
It has neither been fixed nor forgotten. You can find all the information you'd ever want at:
http://www.cdc.gov/
2006-09-26 21:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by IAINTELLEN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what NH 11 is, but I assume you're referring to H5N1, the avian flu. Of which, a seminar I attended recently for Public Health Prepardness covered a few aspects that you might find enlightening.
One, there is no "cure" for the flu, nor is there a vaccine. So I'm not sure what "terror story to sell drugs" you heard, but maybe you should listen a little better next time.
Two, it possess three of the four qualities of pandemic (look up the word) disease, lacking only transmissibility between humans.
Three, if it ever does mutate into human-to-human transmission, it will kill more than half of the people in comes into contact with.
Four, if a pandemic breaks out at a scale anything close to what happened in 1918, it will probably wipe half of the population of the world.
That's why your government is paying people like me to go to Public Health Prepardness seminars, so that the Spanish Flu doesn't repeat itself. So continue BSing about your political agendas, kids, and I'll pull your *** out of the fire when rhetoric and pundits can't save you. God bless America.
2006-09-27 10:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by christophermalachite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately Christoph is right.
H5N1 isn't hype, and it hasn't gone away. So far the fatality rate in people worldwide (for 2006) is 67%. Fatality rate in Indonesia is just under 80%. Think about that - 80% of the people in Indonesia that have contracted the disease have died.
Hundreds of millions of birds have either died or have been killed to try to stop the spread, but it hasn't stopped. It has spread across Asia, Europe and parts of Africa. I suspect it is much more widespread in birds in Africa and it just isn't being reported. We aren't hearing anything out of South America either. That makes me wonder if it might be there as well. I hope not.
Right now the main problem is in birds, and people are being infected in Asia as well.
But the virus is mutating, and the fear is that it will continue to mutate (experts think it will) and that it will spread easily from person to person. That is when we will have a pandemic.
It will be a new virus so no one will have immunity to it. Everyone will be vulnerable.
There will be no vaccine for at least 6 to 9 months. (You can't make vaccine until you have the actual virus - until it finishes mutating.)
The only antiviral drugs we have are in very short supply. I don't have numbers for other countries, but in the U.S. we only have enough Tami-flu for something like 2% of our population.
Living in areas with great health care won't help us because the hospitals will be overwhelmed. Pandemic flu patients will probably be treated at home or a school turned into a clinic - otherwise everyone at the hospital to have a baby, because they are having a heart attack, or because they were in a accident would be infected.
We won't have equipment like ventilators to help patients breath. We have about 105,000 ventilators in the U.S. now and we are using roughly 95,000 -100,000 each day now.
The most effective thing to stop the spread of disease will be to reduce human contact. Schools will close, churches, concerts, sports programs, etc. will be cancelled. People will be told to stay in their homes.
We should have a supply of nonperishable food, stored water, portable radio and batteries, flashlights, (power may very well go out because workers will be too sick to report for duty). We will also need to have at home - baby formula, pet supplies, cleaning supplies.
I would absolutely love to be wrong on this, but many experts say this is the worst virus they have ever seen.
2006-09-30 15:16:46 · answer #3 · answered by starlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bird flu is still very much an issue. In Asia it is still ravishing poultry flocks in some countries. Indonesia, for example, has just recorded it's 51st victim and has the highest death toll in the world. It is expected that with the onset of autumn the flocks of migratory birds on the move again will spread the virus to other territories. The concern for the disease is still there, just that the highlight is sometimes caught by other stories.
Check the news and some useful info here:
http://www.bird-flu-center.com
2006-09-27 01:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an identical undertaking that happned with the swine flu. human beings do not comprehend that those are gimmicks the government makes use of to maintain everybody's minds off of the actual issues we are dealing with with the intention to steer away from a countrywide revolution. Ever be conscious it continually occurs good for the period of a actual disaster. Such on the financial gadget disaster we are dealing with? it is so glaring, the U. S. is the only usa interior the international that would not have self sufficient information. Our information stations are controlled with the help of the government, human beings do only not tell themselves adequate on those matters. in case you like information song into BBC or yet another usa's station to make certain the actuality.
2016-10-01 10:12:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50 deaths in Indonesia so far, 17 in Thailand. Probably many more unreported or misdiagnosed. This virus can mutate and then we have a whole new kettle of fish.
2006-09-27 00:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was all a bunch of hooey. More people die everyday from common colds and run-of-the-mill flu than all of the people who died from bird-flu combined. I, for one, am glad they stopped harping on about it. It was getting very boring.
2006-09-26 21:25:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, i had completely forgotten about it. Wasn't;t it supposed to wipe out 1 in 4 of us??
I cant think what else was going on in the world but maybe it was a distraction....
2006-09-26 21:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by zozbabez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its hn51 and is still very much with us but the protocals put in place are very effective according to fsa defra websites and i work for the mhs and have heard no bad news with regards to this but i do know personally that the safety measures put in place are working in poultry processing plants at this moment in time but we still need to be vigilant at all times
2006-09-27 01:50:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT WILL KILL US ALL.
Did you know that more men were killed by the Spanigh Flu (bird flu) in 1914 then in the 1st World War!
2006-09-26 21:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by MOUTHY 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋