SARS, avian flu pandemics, aaarrrrrghhhhhhhhh.
fragile parent mode.
aaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
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DON’T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry
Whereas I, of course slip into the annoying ‘ right now there is nothing really we can do about it, so why worry….’
Would it make you feel less stressed if I said taht in teh whole of Asia there have been under 100 deaths but millions of birds infected? Seems it doesn’t “cross the species barrier” too easily and when it does it’s only to people who have a lot of contact with infected birds.
Doesn’t stop me wondering about the wisdome of having chickens next year mind you…..
Have to confess to be unbothered about it really. Nothing we can do and I’m sure we’ll know when the time to panic is upon us.
My profess mind not so concerend – except that in because of profess capac. I will then become high risk.
my mummy mind is the one that squeals at these things – espec as I had BB sleeping in my arms through the news!
I panicked over Smallpox, felt completely unbothered about this as max hadn’t mentioned it and he always pours water on my panic fires. Then this morning he said maybe we should consider getting Amelie a flu jab as her asthma really kicking in again. Now i’m panicking.
AIUI there isn’t jab to get yet anyway for ‘Bird flu’. There is yet no sort of vaccine available for this strain(HN51 or whteve rit si called). The drug mneioned is Tamiflu, this just helps ‘boost the system’ to fight an infection, but ISTR it only lasts for a while so has to be given near the time of pential infection.
At the moment in human infections seem to have been direct bird > human transfers and at avery low level. If/when it mutates and gets around to being able to transfer human > human then things could get nasty if it stays as virulent
Panicking is somewhat pointless but being aware of the issues isn’t. As an asthmatic (i.e. high-risk when it comes to flu of any sort) I have paid a lot of attention to the various discussions about this over the last two years. I have had several long conversations with FRSs at work who are quite clear that there will be a pandemic at some point in the coming years and people should plan for one. We had our first contingency planning stuff on this. this week at work. We are planning on the basis that at least 25% of our staff will require at least one week off work and around 1% of those contracting it may well die. Tamiflu needs to be taken within the first 48 hours of infection and as Chris says basically stops the effects of the flu from being as bad as they might. In theory there should be enough Tamiflu for the 25% of the population contracting the flu as the government has (or is) buying 13 million courses in 2005-6 and 2006-7.
The annual flu jab won’t stop avian flu but it will help prevent normal flu which kills around 12,000 in a normal winter (estimates suggest bird flu) would only kill another 50,000 in the UK.
Merry, has your GP not offered you a flu jab for Ammi before then?
No, i’ve not asked either but her asthma really only kicked in during last winter.
I’m going this week anyway so i’ll ask, but i shall be paying close attention to Chris P and following his lead. Comfortable mixture of the non-neurotic and personally aware there
Bit scary to be planning on people dying though