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POPSLatest Version of Bird Flu May Be Pandemic Starter This paradox – emerging from Egypt, the most recent epicentre of the disease – threatens to increase the disease's ability to spread from person to person by helping it achieve the crucial mutation in the virus which could turn it into the greatest plague to hit Britain since the Black Death. Last year the Government identified the bird-flu virus, codenamed H5N1, as the biggest threat facing the country – with the potential to kill up to 750,000 Britons.
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POPSJapanese Raccons found with Bird Flu What this shows is that the h5n1 virus is present in many different species. It breaks out in a form that is deadly to both animals and people when the host animal is gathered together in large numbers. When chickens, ducks, or geese are factory farmed (thousands raised at same time and housed for egg laying or held for delivery to live markets), the natural system "thinks" the species's population is too large and is exhibitig stress that calls for a "system" response to bring the flock back into balance. The system response to re-create balance is influenza which kills weaker or stressed birds and reestablishes balance. Repeated human intervention causes greater system responses until it may reach pandemic levels.
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POPSBird Flu Jumps to Pigs in Indonesia The traditional route for flu to humans is from poultry to pigs to people - so this is not goods news at all - in fact it is rather alarming. It is next step to a new pandemic.
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POPSIndonesia's Plan Guarantees Spread of Bird Flu This would be funny if not for the potential dire consequences. 1. Tell small chicken farmers that they have to hand over all their chickens to the government. 2. Small chicken farmers start hiding chickens. Then, if they are successful, by gathering thousands of chickens together, they increase the chances of spreading bird flu because they have created conditions that favor it's spread. Someone should check if these government officials have an investment with funeral directors or whoever will profit from such a disaster!
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POPSTet and Bird Flu risk - Word is Finally Out Dr. Olive of the World Health Organization, has let the bird out of the bag. Tet brings millions of birds and people in close contact and that means there is an increased chance for bird flu and mutation of traditional flues into more dangerous versions. The unintended consequence of breeding millions of birds for live market during a short period of time is that all sorts of flu variants can mutate under such conditions - even a pandemic version.
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POPSAlmost funny that Germans might get bird flu from Turkeys! Not funny really but when poultry of any kind are raised in an industrial manner,foul play is in the future(sorry for the pun). Flu virus is most easily mutated and passed along when thousands of birds are caged together - the virus is passed via manure, sweat (yes bird sweat) and urine.
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POPSNew Methods Needed to Combat Bird Flu Greed, as well as the need by small farmers to earn once a year extra cash from selling poultry for Tet (Lunar New Year) has and will continue to subvert the means to contain or stop bird flu and even new flu mutations. Introducing a market for collecting and fermenting/digesting manure can defeat the virus and serve needs of farmers.
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POPSSuprise - Wonder Drug Touted as Protection - Isn't! Drug companies are all about profit and often promise much more than they can deliver. Tamiflu is not the wonder drug is was touted as and it's a good thing that governments did not buy millions of doses. Learn two things: 1. Drug company greed is main reason health care is so expensive. 2. They will be of little or no help in combating the outbreak of the next pandemic.
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POPSBird Flu Just Won't Go Away - Why? It's no secret, it's just that many have not seen that the growth of poultry business tenfold in last ten years has had an impact and that annual rush of preparing for live sales of poultry to celebrate Lunar New Year supports world largest unofficial "virus mutation laboratory" - the live markets and wholesale live poultry dealers!
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POPSBird Flu Strikes anew in VitNam The closer we get to Lunar New Year for Asians across the globe, the more we will hear about "new" outbreaks of the human pandemic in waiting. It takes 16 weeks to raise chickens, ducks and geese for live sale at Lunar New Year. Billions of poultry are being brought to market for live sale and thus create the largest breading ground for new flu and a pandemic that may kill millions who have not the means to fight a new flu.
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POPSBird Flu in India Hits Another State By relying on culling and vaccinating alone, and not looking for other solutions, India can expect more bird flu and we can expect to read of it becoming a pandemic in near future.
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POPSNot Good News As Lunar New Year Approaches The desire for ducks, geese, chickens and pigs with which to celebrate Lunar New Year, brings millions upon millions of poultry and swine to market for the next two months and raises the potnetial for spread of new flu variants, as well as avian flu!
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POPSScience and Greed Will Deliver Next Pandemic Greed and science do not make good partners. Breed birds to supposedly be immune to one type of avian flu opens the door to millions of birds and perhaps people be wiped out by a disease that the genetically modified birds do not have any immunity to -- That's why nature favors diversity to protect the whole!
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POPSAnd On and On It Goes - Bird Flu - we have it again Nations all over the globe who have been struck by avian flu, note they have it, kill thousands of birds, then proclaim they are bird flu free and then later on, of course, a new outbreak is reported because the methods being used do not work - that's why a new pandemic is just a matter of time - unless leaders get out of their boxes
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POPSMake Those Chicken Nuggets Extra Well Done! Greed and corruption may facilitate the spread of the next flu pandemic that could kill millions. Does KFC or your local Thai restaurant use chicken nuggets from Thailand - make 'em extra crispy to be sure the flu is dead. Danger from cooked birds is slight actually but it illustrates how hard it is for governments to protect against the worst that pandemics can bring us.
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POPSBird Flu - Thailand - Illustrates Why It goes On and On It's about money honey - always about money. So if you come a culling chickens, I'll be trying to hide mine! That phenomena goes on and on and on. Other methods must be considered to control the spread of bird flu; which could become the next pandemic spring board.
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POPSDeja vu in Viet Nam once again - Bird flu strikes again They have been trying culling, shots and all the classical ways of controlling a disease and it's not working - why? Because they need to think outside of the box and find ways to get farmers to help end pandemic scourge in a new way - turning bird droppings into methane gas by "cooking" it and at same time kill bird flu and potential human flu.
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POPSWorld Killing Flu Closer Than Most Think Pandemics don't just happen; humans play a strong role in their development. When a billion or so people all want to buy live poultry (ducks, geese and chickens) to celebrate Lunar New Year each February, they also create the conditions needed to "grow" a new form of flu and with a 60% probability, pandemic "killing" flu. New thinking is needed but governments are staying with rerunning the past and not getting out of the box to new solutions.
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POPSIndia has had bird flu but is banning poultry related products from nations that have had it too - I India has meat eaters but is predominately a vegan nation - but they raise poultry to export and have had outbreaks of avian flu in their flocks. Now they are banning importation of poultry products from other nations that have similarly afflicted. It all sounds a bit ironic, oxymoronic, and strange. Will they complain when and if other nations ban the import of birds from India? There are smart ways to break the pandemic threat but India and others are not looking beyond the easy and political.
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POPSBird Flu in Togo - Deja vue! Understandable need to make a living but not understanding this or finding new ways to deal with global and local threats means the next pandemic is closer than ever.
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POPSBird Flu - Some Good News Perhaps All now for something completely different - grin - Someone who died from last great pandemic may provide good research material when exhumed because he was buried in a lead coffin. Sorry for the pun but there is some irony in fact that pollutant - lead - may help us save us from ourselves.
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POPSNext Pandemic: Tick, tick, tick goes the clock People have to make a living - yes. But trying to profit from the ever growing international poultry market without taking proper cautions is helping this virus to mutate into a worldwide human pandemic.
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