avian flu?

paddy · #1 09-30-2005, 02:09 PM

with all this talk on cnn and other newscasts about a impending pandemic that could take place in regards to the avian flu..i was wondering what sort of measures the goverment in the dr is taking to prevent this from happening on that beautiful island. the dominican people need to be informed of this danger that these birds ( chickens) pose to their health..some countries even monitor cockfights.

Conchman · #2 09-30-2005, 02:57 PM

not any better or less prepared than the US

paddy · #3 09-30-2005, 04:33 PM

since chickens are such a big part of the dominican culture and cuisine...i felt that it is a important issue to address...the hope being that someone from the government would read my post and respond. this strain of flu made the front cover of national geographic magazine..with a great article that amongst other things says that scientists feel that the pig is the "mixing bowl" that enables this virus to leap from chickens to humans....aside from eating the infected birds. scary for the world.

Conchman · #4 09-30-2005, 05:47 PM

Well good thing is that I dont think there have been any incidences of bird flue in the western hemisphere (correct me if I"m wrong).

How easy is it transmitted from person to person?

rellosk · #5 09-30-2005, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by paddy

...the hope being that someone from the government would read my post and respond.

Are you kidding?

paddy · #6 09-30-2005, 06:17 PM

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/feature1/

Mirador · #7 09-30-2005, 06:26 PM

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with all this talk on cnn and other newscasts about a impending pandemic that could take place in regards to the avian flu..i was wondering what sort of measures the goverment in the dr is taking to prevent this from happening on that beautiful island. the dominican people need to be informed of this danger that these birds ( chickens) pose to their health..some countries even monitor cockfights.

In the summer of 1918, my father, as a twelve-year-old child, tells me that along with his brothers and sisters, mother and father, travelled to their ancestral village of Las Yayitas, on the foothills north of Azua, to get away from the Spanish Flu, an epidemic that affected half the population of the Earth, killing more people than WWI. Late in the year the epidemic abated, and my father along with his family returned to civilization, to the city of San Pedro de Macorís.

rellosk · #8 09-30-2005, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by paddy

read it and weep
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/feature1/

Paddy, my comment wasn't directed to your posting about the necessity of the government taking precautions, it was in response to you saying:

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Originally Posted by Paddy

...the hope being that someone from the government would read my post and respond.

How many people in the DR government do you think can read English? Of those do you actually think anyone from the DR government reads this board?

paddy · #9 10-01-2005, 12:42 AM

the article in the geographic magazine mentions the spanish flu outbreak.."except for a few pacific islanders,everyone on earth was exposed to the disease,and half got sick." many believe "birds" were the culprit...50 million people died.

heldengebroed · #10 10-01-2005, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Conchman

Well good thing is that I dont think there have been any incidences of bird flue in the western hemisphere (correct me if I"m wrong).

How easy is it transmitted from person to person?

deathcount in asia 65 the biggest fear is that the virus mutates and infection between humans is possible.

European health and farming organisations estimates that chickenflue will be imported in europe, including Great Brittian, within the next few months due to migration of wild birds.

Greetings

Johan