650,000 would die from bird flu, says Govt. (UK)

[siri2k]

Source: telegraph.co.uk

650,000 would die from bird flu, says Govt.
David Harrison
Last Updated: 1:04am GMT 28/10/2007

It is a grisly scenario: 650,000 deaths, with bodies piled up in shipping containers before being buried in mass graves all over the country.

That is the nightmare envisaged by the Government in what it describes as the "very likely" event of a bird flu pandemic.

The alarming prediction is contained in a confidential Home Office document drawn up to help councils and other organisations deal with a catastrophic outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

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Other proposals contained in the paper include suspending exhumation powers and coroner's juries and cancelling inquests into deaths from natural causes in prisons.


Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/28/nflu128.xml

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I am thinking that Halliburton and Blackwater USA already have the contracts drawn up, for the (US Army engendered) bird flu pandemic.

See:DoD to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack 23 Oct 2007

See: DoD to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack 11 May 2007

See: Killer flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004

See: Flu 'Oddities'

[aquart]

1. Gosh, they're picking such pretty ways for us to die.

[slowry]

2. Hmmm

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[itsrobert]

3. Bird Flu is non-sense

or it might be a cover for when the Rich start exterminating the Poor.

[depakid]

5. Apparently, public health officials around the world disagree

which is why other western nations have long since put together pandemic preparedness plans.

[tkmorris]

7. Sigh

Your cynicism is probably warranted, but you are completely wrong about this.

[TZ]

8. OT but I have to say....

I love your sig line picture....:)

[tkmorris]

9. Thank you!

It amuses me, and I think accurately sums up DU GD most days :)

[flashl]

11. The extermination is called health care crisis. n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Right on time.

Today's Daily Dose of Pheer.

Pheer. It's your patriotic duty.

[TZ]

6. When the World Health Organization is afraid of something

I would be too. A swiss based organization that specializes in infectious diseases has no reason to pander to the Bush terrorist fear mongering.
I have yet to meet anyone with an epidemiological background that does not find the possibilities (and its possiblities true, no one knows for sure) of bird flu frightening.

[WinkyDink]

10. Americans are actually croaking from staph, and THAT gets pooh-poohed here.

[siri2k]

12. Flu Lab Set to Open for 1918 Pandemic Virus Reconstruction

Flu Lab Set to Open for 1918 Pandemic Virus Reconstruction --Ebola research may resume, pending outcome of appeal 28 Oct 2007 UW-Madison 's $12.5 million Institute for Influenza Viral Research, nearing completion at University Research Park, will have a collection of safety and security features the university hasn't seen before. Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka plans to study several kinds of flu viruses in the institute --including H5N1, the bird flu virus circulating in Asia, and a reconstructed version of the 1918 flu virus, which killed some 50 million people when it spread worldwide... Jan Klein, UW-Madison 's biological safety officer, said the university may appeal the NIH 's ruling halting Ebola work. (See: DoD to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack 23 Oct 2007 and Flu 'Oddities'.)