Tag Archives: Bird Flu

Bird Flu

Posted by admin on October 24, 2009 1 comment | 1 views

Bird flu could be the greatest threat to modern civilization and the world is poorly prepared for a bird flu pandemic. The rapid spread of the bird flu virus raises the question: what can we do to protect ourselves if a bird flu pandemic strikes?

A potential bird flu pandemic can’t be taken lightly.

By taking samples from lungs of exhumed victims researchers at the USA Centers For Disease Control confirmed the 1918 Spanish flu was also a bird flu. Alarming news because the Spanish flu pandemic was a global catastrophe infecting approximately one quarter of the United States and one fifth of the world.
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The Beginning of Sorrows and the Bird Flu

Posted by admin on October 23, 2009 No comments | 1 views

Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

The Greek word that we translated pestilence from is loimos, meaning a “troublemaker, public menace”.
The Webster’s New World dictionary defines pestilence as -1: any virulent or fatal contagious or infectious disease, esp. one of epidemic proportions, as bubonic plague. as -2: anything, as a doctrine, regarded as harmful or dangerous

When we see pestilence it is a public menace. Since in this passage above it is associated with ‘Famines and earthquakes’, we see the kind of menace it is. It referring to any ‘public menace’ that follows such kinds of disasters like Famines or earthquakes.
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Social Distancing is the Key to Minimising Bird Flu Infection in your Staff and Protecting your Small Business

Posted by admin on October 22, 2009 1 comment | 1 views

Second to frequent hand washing, the next best way to protect yourself and your staff is to minimise or eliminate close contact and proximity to others. This is ‘Social Distancing’ and is the term being used more and more frequently as people learn what measures they can take to try to minimise the chance of contracting Bird Flu when the pandemic starts.

There are a number of ways you can encourage social distancing in the workplace. For example crowded places and large gatherings of people should be avoided, whether in internal or external spaces.
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Learn All The Secrets They Don’t Tell You About Bird Flu

Posted by admin on October 21, 2009 No comments | 1 views

Isn’t it interesting to think that one day you could be going about your normal everyday life and then suddenly an outbreak of bird flu could be on you? What would you do in this situation? How would you react? Most people will tell you that they would stay calm and do what they are told, however this is unfortunately not true. You see, most people will panic and as a result, total chaos could erupt. So what can we do prevent this from occurring in the unlikely event of a bird flu breakout?

Preparation Is The Key

One of the first things that most people will think about if bird flu was upon them, is their loved ones and where they are located, therefore it is important to make sure you can communicate with your family and friends fast and easily. Does everyone in your family, including your children have a cell phone? Perhaps only to use just for emergencies.
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Vaccine Against Bird Flu Seems to Loose Its Efficiency on Killing the Virus

Posted by admin on October 20, 2009 1 comment | 1 views

Until now doctors have been using the Tamiflu vaccine for treating the cases of human bird flu. The vaccine proved its efficiency but now it seems that the virus is getting resistant to it. This was the conclusion of researchers of Oxford University after two Vietnamese patients died even though they received the Tamiflu vaccine.
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The Risks of Bird Flu

Posted by admin on October 19, 2009 1 comment | 1 views

In the last years a new problem seemed to be occurring. Media considered it a huge disaster and a threat for human kind. They realized that more than two-thirds of the globe was at risk of being infected with the bird flu virus called H5N1. It was also noticed that for people that got infected the chances of survival were 50-50%. The statistics come and prove this phenomenon agreeing with the fact that half of the affected people have died. That is why specialists required the development of vaccines and a stockpile of medicine.
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Symptoms Of Bird Flu

Posted by admin on October 18, 2009 No comments | 1 views

Whether man is on the nature-conquering spree or the nature is on the spree of subduing the humanity? Who is the master and who’s whose servant? Technology or man? Can the push-button comforts provide relief to all your miseries? Have you conquered all the diseases, identified all the viruses so that you can ravel in a state of perfect health? Then why do you have these symptoms, which your doctor has identified as bird flu?
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The Risk of the Bird Flu is Still Present Among Us

Posted by admin on October 17, 2009 No comments | 1 views

Public health authorities are alarmed by a strain of H5N1, also known as the virus of the bird flu, which has firs affected the birds across Asia and Russia. It also has infected more than 100 humans in the past 18 months, killing about half of them. Scientists fear that the virus could begin to spread between humans and so this will unleash a global pandemic.

At the annual regional meeting of the World Health Organization in Auckland, New Zealand, among other top items presented, it is expected to be discussed the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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Bird Flu Virus is Now Known to Have Evolved in Two Forms

Posted by admin on October 16, 2009 No comments | 1 views

What was only a supposition, now it is proven, that the bird flu virus has evolved in two strains that are distinct genetically speaking. This is not good news as it might cause even more deaths among humans and the researchers will have to work double for finding an effective vaccine against these two forms of bird flu virus.
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General Information Regarding Avian Influenza (bird Flu)

Posted by admin on October 15, 2009 No comments | 1 views

The World Health Organization (WHO) makes reports and updates regarding new human cases of infection with bird flu. The only subtype that can cause severe illness to people is Influenza A /H5N1 virus, initially it affects chickens, ducks and other birds by the process of mutation they can become highly pathogenic. Because highly pathogenic viruses can survive for long periods in tissue, water and in the environment, especially when temperatures are low is transmitted very easily in chickens and other birds through direct contact with feces and secretions from infected birds, eggs, feed, water, cages equipment, vehicles and clothing. Public health authorities monitor human illnesses associated with avian influenza.
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