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Bird Flu 1: Yuanyang, China (4)
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Bird Flu 1: Yuanyang, China
Recently, travelers have been warned about the outbreak of Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) again. Believe it or not, let’s face it:
*US Health Department
*United Nations Heath Organization
*Nature Publishing Group
*BBC
*Washington Post
You have to take your health into your own hands and be responsible for your own health outcome, which means educating yourself. Essentially, the bird flu situation looks to be getting worse. We're seeing more infections in Vietnam and symptomless carriers, and countries are doing little to actually prepare for the virus. They have plans in place and claim to be stockpiling a vaccine that doesn't even exist. The only thing they are really stockpiling is Tamiflu, which is not very effective against H5N1 and will be in short supply if an outbreak actually occurs.
In this serial of pictures, I would like to share with you the reality: although chicken in human conversation is a fear, in the food service, it is a promised taste and profit.
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(photo taken of a Hani minority woman at Yuanyang bus station, Yunnan Province on her way to Hekou, 197 km away, on the same bus with me)
Reference:
* Bird Flu 1, Yuanyang, China
* Bird Flu 2, Sa Pa, Vietnam
* Bird Flu 3, Sa Pa, Vietnam
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| In Sept 2005, experts in Hong Kong have warned that the human strain of the H5N1 bird flu that surfaced in Vietnam was showing resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu. Countries around the world were stockpiling Tamiflu to ward off a looming flu pandemic that could kill millions of people. Drug manufacturers were urged to make more effective versions of Relenza, an inhaled antiviral that is also known to be effective in battling the much feared H5N1. |
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