Only too true SB200, I'm positive their are hundreds who are carring this Bird Flu 'unofficially'. And even though most attention is addressed to terroists its the "deadly flu's" we need to be more concerned about.
Most terroists couldn't afford a plan ticket to Australia, but it would not take much effort for them to purposely infect our country with deadly flu's as carriers or by other means.
It is just simply growing out of control, check out the headlines over the past couple of weeks.
Killer flu: Could the world cope? It is only a matter of time before a major outbreak of potentially deadly flu, according to scientists. Could the world cope? There have been three flu pandemics during the past 100 years.
The 1918 Spanish flu is estimated to have killed up to 50m people worldwide.
The Asian flu of 1957 was caught much earlier but still claimed one million lives. The Hong Kong flu of 1968 was responsible for a similar number of deaths.
It has been 36 years since the last major outbreak and scientists, health professionals and some governments are getting twitchy.
'Inevitable outbreak' Most scientists agree that another flu pandemic is inevitable. Many say it is overdue.
"It really is inevitable," says Dr Alan Hay, director of the World Influenza Centre in London. "We don't know when it will arrive but we are anticipating it."
Some experts believe the next killer flu may already have arrived.
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A study published this week by scientists in Australia suggests Relenza is effective against the strain of bird flu currently affecting Asia.
The GlaxoSmithKline drug has been available since 1999 and stops the flu virus from spreading. Tamiflu, which is manufactured by Hoffmann-La Roche, works in a similar way.
Professor Oxford believes governments around the world should be stockpiling these drugs now.
"These drugs act against every known influenza virus. There is no excuse for governments not to have them," he says.
"There will be a mad rush for these drugs if this flu arrives on the scene. It will be pretty chaotic.
"It will be a dereliction of duty not to have stockpiled these drugs."
More Headline Stories... * Netherlands facing large outbreak of drug resistant TB * Drug-resistant TB raging in Eastern Europe, Central Asia * Deadly Strain Of TB Spread By Air Travel * 'Extremely Virulent' Bird Flu Spreads To Second BC Farm * B.C. Bird Flu 'More Virulent' Form * Two-thirds of US crops GM contaminated * Avian Flu Found on Maryland Chicken Farm * Bacteria Run Wild, Defying Antibiotics * Insurer warns of global warming catastrophe * Mystery disease kills 1500 pigeons * SARS Forgotten But Not Gone * HIV on rise in W. Europe, rampaging through E. Europe, Central Asia * A mysterious viral infection closes US army bases in Germany * Climate change will destroy us * Mild Strain of Bird Flu Found in Texas * Asia's Bird Flu Strikes House Cats * Canada Reports Case of Bird Flu in British Columbia * Bird Flu Spreads in China, Experts Ring Alarm Bells * Scientists discover new form of mad cow disease * Bird flu jumps to exotic species * Bird Flu Found in Flocks in Two More U.S. States * A mysterious viral infection closes US army bases in Germany
I don't know about you but you don't have to be a genius to see where its all leading. The enconmy is placing to much attention on 'gold and oil' very shallow indeed. When the bubble bursts, will see how much the gold and oil will do for them!!..
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