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Originally posted by downtown436
Originally posted by flight-dynamics
The US Government has many classified projects of which "Bird Flu" is one of them. The Center for Diseas Control (CDC) is a government agency that is working with DHS (and other agencies too) to explore how the government needs to react to the coming Pandemic but also how to protect citizens and prevent the spread of the virus when it hits.
So you work for the gov't?
You know about classified stuff?
The coming pandemic?
Whoa buddy, how do you know there is a pandemic coming? You just made some really fishy statements.
Originally posted by flight-dynamics
The "world wide pandemic" is not a mystery and its pretty much mainstream knowledge. Do a quick search on the web and you'll come up with many credible and official government and non-government websites that speak to this fact. If you haven't heard about it "coming" than that would be a bit odd. No the "Bird Flu" (Avian Flu) has not migrated en mass to humans, although some 300+ humans have been infected by the virus and that is known medical fact (again do your homework its easily found).
Originally posted by flight-dynamics
Every major corporation in the US, state and local government, and the US Federal Government are working on processes to manage the eventual migration of the virus to humans. There are committees almost everywhere on this - that is not fiction.
Originally posted by flight-dynamics
The medical community in the US (check the CDC for example) are on constant watch for the eventual migration of the virus en mass to humans. The same sort of mass flu virus occurred right after WWI (again do your pandemic research) and was catastrophic worldwide.
WASHINGTON - If the nightmare of an avian flu pandemic emerges from the dark chapters of doomsday scenarios, it will fall to the Department of the Homeland Security, not the medical establishment, to manage the crisis, according to federal documents and interviews with government officials.
In the event of a flu pandemic, “the way it works is that DHS is going to turn to [HHS] to work with the states and the locals on the actual health and medical response to what’s going on,” said Mark Wolfson, an HHS spokesman. “In the meantime, if we’re dealing with a pandemic situation, where we’ve got people getting sick all over the country and all over the world, then what Homeland Security is going to be doing is coordinating the overall federal response to implications of the pandemic,” he said.
Last year’s plan called for closing of schools, restricting travel and implementing textbook, lock-down quarantine measures. Those extreme measures jumped into the spotlight last week when President Bush suggested that federal military troops — not just the National Guard — may have to be called in to enforce a quarantine. DHS officials privately acknowledge that any such forced quarantine could swiftly turn violent, with people rioting to get away from a perceived diseased area. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here “If you quarantine it’s going to get ugly really quick, I’m afraid,” said a DHS official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying he was not authorized to talk about internal planning discussions. It’s just that potential for chaos that has the administration examining the steps needed to allow the President to put federal troops in charge of the situation.
President Bush said yesterday that he would consider using the military to "effect a quarantine" in the event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza in the United States.
State and federal authorities are investigating a finding of suspected non-pathogenic or low-pathogenic avian influenza in a single broiler/breeder poultry farm in western Kentucky.
The strain poses minimal risk to human health and is not the high-pathogenic strain associated with human and poultry deaths in other countries. State Veterinarian Robert C. Stout has quarantined the farm, which produces hatching eggs for Perdue Farms Inc. Perdue plans to depopulate 20,000 chickens in two houses on the farm. "The state and federal government and Perdue are acting aggressively to contain and eliminate the disease," Dr. Stout said. "
There is no evidence that any infected poultry are in the human food supply as a result of this infection. We will do what is necessary to minimize the disruption to overseas trade." "I have been in constant contact with state, federal and industry officials since this came to light," Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer said. "The people of Kentucky and our trading partners should rest assured that we are doing everything possible to address the situation." The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is conducting surveillance on backyard flocks within a two-mile radius of the farm.
A minimal drop in egg production at the farm was noticed in mid-March. Perdue's veterinary services laboratory took samples from chickens at the farm and found antibodies for avian influenza. Testing by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, resulted in a presumptive positive finding for the H7 strain. Subsequent testing by NVSL and the Breathitt Veterinary Center in Hopkinsville confirmed the finding.
No virus has been isolated and no poultry deaths have been found in connection with the infection. Avian influenza is a virus that affects domestic poultry and some wild birds. It is spread to healthy birds by direct contact with infected birds or infected material, often through feces from infected birds. Avian influenza is not transmitted through eggs. Low-pathogenic avian influenza causes little if any illness in poultry and is rarely fatal to poultry.)
Originally posted by jzbrown
This is very interesting. There was a case in the local news here in the last week where bird flu was reported in Kentucky at a farm. Supposedly they killed all the birds, and said it was under control, but still, scary. I wonder what the hell is going on? And people were commenting on the local papers comment board and joking about it. That made me even more mad.