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2005-05-20 International-UN-NGOs

WHO Urges Nations World Wide To Prepare For Virus Outbreak

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Posted by Spavirt Pheng6042 2005-05-20 01:04|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What about finding out WHY bird flu and a slew of other flu strains keep popping up first in that part of the world? Are people raising animals in conditions that promote the propagation of the various flu strains that are seemingly in constant threat of jumping to humans? Are there sanitation problems that need to be dealt with? What's the deal?

It's all fine and dandy to issue advisories and warnings, but it seems to me that a better course of action would be to try to interrupt the epidemic before it gets a chance to start.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-20 01:32|| 2005-05-20 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Er, scratch that; not so much interrupting the epidemic before it gets a chance to start, but containing it before the problem spreads beyond SE Asia's shores.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-20 01:35|| 2005-05-20 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no chance it can be contained. It's doubtful we can even slow it down, especially with Tamiflu resistance now emerging.

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-20 01:50|| 2005-05-20 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Not with a bang, but a wheezing whimper.

Posted by .com 2005-05-20 02:05|| 2005-05-20 02:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Basically, Asian farmers are filthy people. That's it in a nutshell. You wouldn't believe what I had to go through to convince my cook to wash her hands before she prepared my food. And that's after she's cleaned the house...imagine cleaning the chicken coops and then preparing dinner.

Posted by gromky 2005-05-20 03:32|| 2005-05-20 03:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I wouldn't call them filthy. Its more they don't take the basic hygeine precautions most of us take for granted. Combine that with close proximity of domestic animals and food preparation and you have the basic cause.

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-20 04:21|| 2005-05-20 04:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Are people raising animals in conditions that promote the propagation of the various flu strains that are seemingly in constant threat of jumping to humans?

Essentially? Yes. Even in India there are a lot of street level food bazaars (I know my family has shopped in them often enough) where poultry is basically up for grabs, literally in some cases, hygenically separating them isn't even thought of and the idea of diseases from animals like chickens doesn't even cross the mind. Then theres also rural to semi-urban farm areas where you can find chickens roaming around. The shanty town areas aren't too likely to see too many chickens around because that would end up on someones dinner plate right quick, but other than that theres very little in the way of major separation of areas of where poultry in general tends to live/feed and where humans often live/feed in places like that.

Posted by Valentine 2005-05-20 05:07|| 2005-05-20 05:07|| Front Page Top

#8 how bout the gov'ts in the region (yes, you, China and VN) be honest about outbreaks and teh extent? Might be nice to have a response better than the SARS process. Maybe the mighty China will be brought low by a pandemic reduction in population, rural to urban?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-20 08:12|| 2005-05-20 08:12|| Front Page Top

#9 they don't take the basic hygeine precautions most of us take for granted. Combine that with close proximity of domestic animals and food preparation

If that isn't filthy, what is?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-20 08:29|| 2005-05-20 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 "The WHO said the study in Vietnam was not conclusive, however, because of the relatively small number of cases."

And no word in this article on what the preparations should be. More money to the U.N., no doubt. I'm putting this one in the file with nuclear winter and global warming. John Bolton will take care of this.

Posted by Tom 2005-05-20 09:32|| 2005-05-20 09:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Hasn't WHO been screaming about a world wide outbreak for several years now? Starting to sound like a cry of Wolf to me. Still, like a broken clock they can be right twice a day....

Posted by mmurray821 2005-05-20 13:00|| 2005-05-20 13:00|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm sure the UN will come up with a solution after a few conferences in exotic locations to discuss having a luncheon or three in Vietnam for some on-hand analysis ~~of their sex industrty~~.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-20 13:56|| 2005-05-20 13:56|| Front Page Top

#13 We will get right on this. But first we demand that the United State withdraw all forces from Vietnam.

Posted by K. Annan 2005-05-20 14:00|| 2005-05-20 14:00|| Front Page Top

#14 The usual system for raising pigs and chickens in Asia is to house the chickens on slat floors above the pigs. The pigs eat the chicken droppings, and get about 40% of their nutrition from them. You couldnt design a better system for getting disease to cross the species barrier, and once pigs are infected it is a very easy jump to humans.

Posted by Grunter 2005-05-20 14:54|| 2005-05-20 14:54|| Front Page Top

#15 gives free-range a whole new flavor.

Posted by DIM YUK 2005-05-20 20:48|| 2005-05-20 20:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Anybody old engh to remember the devastating outbreak of Swine Flu?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-20 21:07|| 2005-05-20 21:07|| Front Page Top

#17 killed half the guys in my fraternity...or something like that....?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-20 21:14|| 2005-05-20 21:14|| Front Page Top

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