Apr
25
Infodemic not a pandemic
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I was reading an interesting interview with Michael Cherkasky, Chief Executive of Marsh & McLennan, in the Daily Telegraph. Marsh & Mclennan are the worlds large insurance brokers so Michael Cherkasky is accustomed to evaluating risk. He feels that there is a strong chance that there will be an influenza pandemic at some stage, but [...]
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24
Economic threat – bird flu or oil prices?
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A barrel of crude oil hit an all time high of $72.20 last week, and it’s price is set to go higher. In the UK, we can already see the effect of these record oil prices – a gallon of petrol is now about 97p per litre (note not a gallon!). It won’t be long [...]
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20
Well done Roche
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The news about bird flu has been a bit depressing today. Indionesia has suffered its 24th death from the disease and avian flu marches forever onwards through the Asian countries – Pakistan is the latest country to report its presence in commercial poultry. On the other hand we hear that Roche have donated 3 million [...]
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19
Well its seems that according to some European pension fund chiefs that not only would a flu pandemic prove to be immensely damaging economically, it may actually reduce the burden on pension funds, as elderly members succumb to the disease! The article then goes on to say that other problems for pension funds may ensue [...]
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14
If you’ve been worrying about the possible parallels between the current H5N1 bird flu outbreaks and the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918, then I recommend that you read this article. The author presents a clear argument to state that the conditions in 1918, at the end of that dreadful war are hugely different from the [...]
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13
No news is good news
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I notice that the volume of news about bird flu has reduced over the last few days. Although it might be the run up to Easter that is causing this, I rather think that we are in a lull phase at the moment. The bird flu scare in the UK has subsided – avian flu [...]
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12
A dying crow
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Perhaps all this research into avian flu is making me paranoid. I was at the gym this morning, pounding away on the treadmill, when I noticed a crow flutter out of the sky onto the grass in the playing field behind the gym The crow lay on the grass and only occasionally moved a wing [...]
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11
Bird flu news is “from around the world”
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There seems to be a strong international flavour to the avian flu news today. I suppose with no main point of focus, such as with the UK last week, news items become fragmented from various parts of the world. The global reach, and potential threat, of avian flu is apparent from the various articles published [...]
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9
Mixed bird flu messages
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Whilst preparing the news snippets for SurvivingFlu.com today, it became obvious that the public is receiving mixed messages from the various news media. On the one hand we hear that no other birds tested in the UK, have been found with H5N1 bird flu, and on the other we learn that H5N1 is probably not [...]
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8
Apologies to those who are reading this who are not from the UK, however I have found a list of the ten most likely birds that could carry bird flu into the United Kingdom. Published here by the BBC, this is an informative list of waterfowl which should help people distinguish susceptible birds, should they [...]
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