March 8 Flu Update
Hong kong plans to spend $254 on antiviral stockpiling.You can't spend $254 million in cabbage, can you? Korean paper reports that kimchi effective in treating bird flu.
Vietnamese officials are studying whether the "health care" case is a human transmission.
Health official says that flu could cover the globe in 30 days.
Canada says that flu pandemic is imminent, also notes bioterror fear.
New York Times on the 4 new cases.
Thailand agrees to test bird flu vaccine on humans.
Recombinomics notes that 1918 flu and 2005 similar in that early cases misdiagnosed.
Recombinomics writes that atypical cases in clusters point to greater human-human transmission than previously suspected. Still, shouldn't it have spread much faster and more more lethally than before?
New from CDC...fact sheet on history of pandemics, notes "medium" pandemic death tolls. Makes good point on shortages of healthcare workers due to flu and carrying for their own family. I often wonder if this will stretch the binds of our compact.
CDC flu facts...
ProMed has commentary on bird flu vaccines, including from a Texas vet with similar experience..he sounds a cautionary tale on the misuse of vaccine testing.
posted by Orange @ 10:11 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the comments and thanks for reading. I'm enjoying doing it, and glad people appreciate it.
Thanks too for the discussion. It's interesting.
First, I assumed WHO was saying they had "no knowledge" referred to knowledge of the circumstances of infection, and not knowledge of the case itself.
Second, the media in this country isn't covering this because they don't perceive the risk to be close enough to Americans, in my opinion.
Third, on the general concept of causing panic, I think the elephant in the room here is the swine flu vaccine mess from the 70's. In my opinion, the public health field in the US is terrified on ending up in that situation again.
Imagine, if you will, a public health consultant proposing nationwide avian flu vaccination in the absence of an absolute panic. Then, imagine the next five minutes on Fox News.
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