WHO warns army may be needed to fight bird flu

[Lori Price CLG]

WHO warns army may be needed to fight bird flu 13 Jan 2006 The World Health Organisation yesterday predicted authorities might need to use the army and police to quarantine about 120,000 people to contain aninitial pandemic flu outbreak of just 19 cases.

Hitoshi Oshitani, a consultant to WHO, said his estimates highlighted the difficulty of formulating a rapid response toan initial outbreak of mutated bird flu transmitted between humans.

Not only would such aggressive quarantining raise legal and human rights concerns, he said, but knowledge about how to use antiviral drugs as a preventative measure was limited.

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(If you think the illegal NSA spying was a breach of civil liberties, wait until the bird flu pandemic arrives at the Bush dictatorship's doorstep.)

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Lori Price

[RazzleDazzle]

1. Two things

1 - Not all experts are on board that we WILL, inevitably, have a pandemic.

2 - Hasn't WHO been infiltrated by the PNACers/fascists/corporatists? I think it has. I don't remember details, just that over the years I've developed significant suspicion of WHO from things I've read here.

And yes, Bush was gleefully promising martial law a couple of months ago while he was on a high about what he genuinely hoped was an "inevitable" pandemic.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Hypotheticals blasted as headlines. A little further down in the article.

The H5N1 avian flu virus that killed three people in Turkey has made a small mutation that may adapt it more closely to infecting people but it is still a long way from "going human" and starting a pandemic, according to a largely reassuring genetic analysis released last night by the World Health Organisation and UK Medical Research Council, adds Clive Cookson.

MKJ

[SaveElmer]

3. Also...

This is not a new mutation...it has been seen before in the far east. It did not result in H-H transmission then and no reason to believe it will now.

WHO is doing a good job, but they have people there who tend to spout off too much, make wild predictions that they later have to backtrack on.

[Autumn Colors]

4. The dark man's comin' .....

Now might be a good time to rent and re-watch (or watch if you've never seen) the Stephen King miniseries "The Stand" ... At least just the first couple episodes....

[leesa]

5. Let's see...what are we up to....80 cases world wide??? and they want

to incarcerate us? Wake the FUCK UP people!

[Lori Price CLG]

6. Well, the pandemic will provide Bush with the *excuse* to...

...incarcerate us.

Lori Price