Wednesday, April 29, 2009
News City Council Briefing on Swine Flu Now
Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:48 PM
As Jonah noted below, the World Health Organization just upgraded its pandemic flu alert level from 4 to 5 — meaning that a pandemic is "imminent." WHO director Margaret Chan just told reporters, "All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. It really is all of humanity that is under threat in a pandemic."
Dr. David Fleming, director of the county health department's communicable diseases program, is briefing the council's emergency preparedness on swine flu now; watch it live right here.
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Hannah-
It's a fairly new escalation system and it is the first time it has gone to "5". There were other flu alarms in '75, '68 and '57.
It's a fairly new escalation system and it is the first time it has gone to "5". There were other flu alarms in '75, '68 and '57.
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Sweet, obviously we're all going to die and should rush to the nearest hospital if you so much as breathe.
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What's the only possible way to prevent all pandemic animal flus? Stop eating animal corpses. Problem solved. Yay!
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@9 - um, you'd have to go and slaughter all the baby animals in the world too.
Well?
We expect you to do it personally, by hand.
Well?
We expect you to do it personally, by hand.
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