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It may sound like the plot of a sci-fi thriller — but it’s what would happen if the 1918 Spanish Flu that decimated the world happened today.
Guadalupe County emergency management and their counterparts around the country are preparing for just such a scenario because in the history of humankind it happens once every 100 years or so — and the time is coming for the next one.....Kinsey and Hays are preparing for a May 2 dress rehearsal of a pandemic disaster at the Navarro ISD. Volunteers will set up and operate a “drive through” POD in which they will take a practice run at registering, screening and pretending to inoculate 100 volunteers so they can identify whatever problems might come up and prepare to meet them.
Originally posted by burntheships
Imagine that...they were doing a drill just a month ago...???
The Houston Federal Executive Board sponsored such a drill, April 14-15. The Interagency Continuity Influenza Pandemic Tabletop Exercise was as an opportunity for federal, state, and local emergency coordinators to discuss how their agencies would manage during a pandemic event.
Originally posted by spinkyboo
Originally posted by burntheships
Imagine that...they were doing a drill just a month ago...???
Another case of a drill before or during the disaster -
My jaw continues to fall open -
If we are truly thinking people -
we will clearly see connections -
Originally posted by StudentofJefferson
reply to post by Cameoii
check this out it seems the pharma win in the EU made some people rich.abcnews.go.com...
Originally posted by Cameoii
reply to post by burntheships
Wow...your post made me check my local area for similar drills and I actually found one. I don't know if this lends credence to your theories or if it is simply something that is practiced everywhere, but the coincidence is strange.
The Houston Federal Executive Board sponsored such a drill, April 14-15. The Interagency Continuity Influenza Pandemic Tabletop Exercise was as an opportunity for federal, state, and local emergency coordinators to discuss how their agencies would manage during a pandemic event.
Pandemic Flu Exercise
"We are following and is so far advanced that we can identify this virus here, if a Dane have been unfortunate enough to have contracted it by a trip to Mexico. Hospitals are also informed about the situation so they know they must look for this virus here, "says Kåre Mølbak, Head of Statens Serum Institut.
b]The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says on its website that there is no vaccine to specifically protect humans from swine flu, only to protect pigs.
"The seasonal influenza vaccine will likely help provide partial protection against swine H3N2, but not swine H1N1 viruses,'' the website says.
local Health Minister Armando Ahued said at a news conference...
"...This new virus is susceptible to a specific antiviral, and the cases that are detected and determined as flu will be perfectly treated,'' Ahued said.
Obama also bought $5,000 in stock in AVI BioPhrama, a biotech company that makes a drug to combat avian flu. Within a couple weeks of that purchase, Obama spoke on the floor of the Senate about the need to increase funding to combat avian flu. He has since sold those stocks.
www.prisonplanet.com...
Given the reports of the possibility of a swine flu epidemic, is interesting to note that last time there was a significant outbreak of a new form of swine flu in the U.S. it originated at the army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The model uses census data and 281 million synthetic people at work, play, school and home, along with Department of Transportation travel data that incorporates rapid spread from one city to another by air travel. The computer model employs probabilities that an infected person will cross paths with others at home or, with lower probability, elsewhere. "So we are only computing the probability of any person becoming infected on any given day, and a roll of the dice is needed to decide whether they are infected or not," said Timothy Germann of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The computer also considered one vexing aspect to the flu: About 33 percent of those infected don't develop symptoms and can unknowingly transmit the disease.