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Been posting on and on about Bird Flu and the end is nigh. Plus Global warming and the end is nigh. To me this post copied below certainly sounds depressed and I think shows a problem.
We share our world with a terminally ill child, and I have done for 11 of his 12 years. Though given months to live at birth we have maintained him, got to grips with his major challenges, and allowed him to flourish. Over the same time many parents of 'healthy ' children have lost them to many differing causes. Which is the best way to be? ignore our mortality and 'miss' so much of our children's development only to have a car,virus,bacteria,fall take them away from us before their time or to glory in each and every day they have?
Closer to the edge affords a better view.
I've seen too many 'first timers' on the ward crippled as they watch their 'indestructible' child fade and be consigned to the moses basket (used to 'sneak' the corpse off the ward without causing upset to the rest of the parents) with no notion that this is how it is for more than the 'few'.
The spectre of an upper respiratory flu pandemic is worthy of our note as Luke would need special consideration to survive it , which we luckily keep in place to help us through the times we cannot shop due to being 'on the ward', many folk continue in their delusional fog without giving a thought to the 'what ifs'.........is it wise? are your kids worth 'chancing it' with? and if so is that 'good parenting'?
Egypt has it's 20th 'victim' as a woman died there yesterday.The 25yr old lived in Cairo.
and WHO gives us this;
Bird flu well entrenched in Asia: WHO
2 hours, 17 minutes ago
MANILA (AFP) - The bird flu virus is "firmly entrenched" in Asia and a pandemic among humans remains possible, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert warned Wednesday.
While Asian countries are more prepared to react to any outbreaks than before and have vaccine stockpiles, deaths and infections have continued, noted Takeshi Kasai, the WHO's regional adviser in communicable disease surveillance and response unit.
"The virus has been firmly entrenched in this region, I'm afraid," Kasai told reporters during an exercise to test the Philippines' preparations against the disease.
"The virus itself keeps changing, so the risk of pandemic persists."
Experts fear the virus, which is usually spread directly from birds to humans, could mutate into a form easily transmissible between people, sparking a deadly global pandemic.
Three people have died in China this year of bird flu while a boy and his father were admitted this week to a hospital in Indonesia on suspicion of having the disease.
Since the first human cases were reported in 2003, at least 200 people have died from the H5N1 virus around the world, the WHO said. Indonesia is the world's worst-hit country, with 11 deaths so far this year.
Brunei, Singapore and the Philippines remain the only countries in the region where the flu, either in birds or humans, has not been detected.
Kasai praised China for being more transparent in reporting suspected cases.
"I think China now is very open and has been positively sharing information, including lab results," he said.
China has been highly criticised in the past for withholding information relating to the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that ravished the region several years ago.
I know about pressures you can get a home but I think this guy needs to get a bit of help.
We share our world with a terminally ill child, and I have done for 11 of his 12 years. Though given months to live at birth we have maintained him, got to grips with his major challenges, and allowed him to flourish. Over the same time many parents of 'healthy ' children have lost them to many differing causes. Which is the best way to be? ignore our mortality and 'miss' so much of our children's development only to have a car,virus,bacteria,fall take them away from us before their time or to glory in each and every day they have?
Closer to the edge affords a better view.
I've seen too many 'first timers' on the ward crippled as they watch their 'indestructible' child fade and be consigned to the moses basket (used to 'sneak' the corpse off the ward without causing upset to the rest of the parents) with no notion that this is how it is for more than the 'few'.
The spectre of an upper respiratory flu pandemic is worthy of our note as Luke would need special consideration to survive it , which we luckily keep in place to help us through the times we cannot shop due to being 'on the ward', many folk continue in their delusional fog without giving a thought to the 'what ifs'.........is it wise? are your kids worth 'chancing it' with? and if so is that 'good parenting'?
Egypt has it's 20th 'victim' as a woman died there yesterday.The 25yr old lived in Cairo.
and WHO gives us this;
Bird flu well entrenched in Asia: WHO
2 hours, 17 minutes ago
MANILA (AFP) - The bird flu virus is "firmly entrenched" in Asia and a pandemic among humans remains possible, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert warned Wednesday.
While Asian countries are more prepared to react to any outbreaks than before and have vaccine stockpiles, deaths and infections have continued, noted Takeshi Kasai, the WHO's regional adviser in communicable disease surveillance and response unit.
"The virus has been firmly entrenched in this region, I'm afraid," Kasai told reporters during an exercise to test the Philippines' preparations against the disease.
"The virus itself keeps changing, so the risk of pandemic persists."
Experts fear the virus, which is usually spread directly from birds to humans, could mutate into a form easily transmissible between people, sparking a deadly global pandemic.
Three people have died in China this year of bird flu while a boy and his father were admitted this week to a hospital in Indonesia on suspicion of having the disease.
Since the first human cases were reported in 2003, at least 200 people have died from the H5N1 virus around the world, the WHO said. Indonesia is the world's worst-hit country, with 11 deaths so far this year.
Brunei, Singapore and the Philippines remain the only countries in the region where the flu, either in birds or humans, has not been detected.
Kasai praised China for being more transparent in reporting suspected cases.
"I think China now is very open and has been positively sharing information, including lab results," he said.
China has been highly criticised in the past for withholding information relating to the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that ravished the region several years ago.
I know about pressures you can get a home but I think this guy needs to get a bit of help.
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