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by Babel-Fish | June 10, 2009 at 07:44 pm

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WHO the World Health Organization, spread unwarranted panic seemingly they are not investigating thoroughly before issuing press releases. So far statistics have proved many of the so called pandemics warning notices to be unwarranted due to the fact that flue passed from on species to another become weaker when passed on to other human hosts.

So what’s been happening when the first human hosts catch the flue virus it can be life threatening but when past on it becomes a normal not so life threatening virus. To the news media such outbreaks make great news and they will milk every avenue and present assumed horror analysis.

Who is the main offender, well of course the news media look what happened concerning the financial meltdown of which only became a real meltdown because of the attitude of the news hounds.

WHO needs to be more responsible when the organization releases a health warning it must be a full report to include the facts concerning past outbreaks and not in a format that the news media can make assumptions on.

The real problem is that after a while WHO will lose its credibility and when a real mass life threat does occur, because their history shows them as crying wolf their cry will be mostly disregarded. Of course it also needs national health authorities to take a more responsible approach and to make sure they don’t issue press releases that cause unwarranted panic, because the local outbreak has not been thoroughly investigated.

At the moment I live in a country where pigs and poultry are living in highly populated residential area’s. This of course causes a problem concerning the chances of viruses passing across the species barrier. I would expect that I myself have been infected with such viruses and like everybody else here just gone to a drug store and bought the normal flue remedies.

Perhaps there is a need for more precaution against allowing farm animals living in a residential area, that governments that turn a blind eye, or, have no laws restricting this practice be leaned on by WHO and concerned Western Nations to introduce better control.

The transportation of livestock through highly populated towns in open sided vehicles (especial pigs) should be stopped. Cockfighting should be banned or at least only allowed out in the countryside and chicken not be allowed to be kept in the cities or highly populated area. These being the main problems in the Third World; WHO really needs to address the area’s where precaution needs to be taken.

At present the third world is the breeding ground of such viruses, but sensible precautions can be set in place and WHO, who does the screaming really needs to center on the possible solutions.

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Babel-Fish

at 20:34 on June 10th, 2009

If we want to stop a real pandemic, there is a need to talk to the governments in the third world concerning animals within their poorest residential communities where pigs and fowl are allowed to be bred and raised. How this effects tourism and the spread of infection and viruses within a global community.

Yesterday a large wagon full of pigs stopped by a busy market place full of tourists its my bet more than one pig had the flue. I often see about 3 or 4 of these open sided vehicles each day traveling through the streets of a highly populated Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. I also see many chickens tide by the leg to a stake, in this populated area there are thousands.

Yet avian flue is rare, lol. Of course it is, doctors would be frighten to publish such a factor in the land of cock fighting. The locals travel with there fighting cocks on the crowded local jeepney and coach transport, tourist of course that stray off the beaten track could easily be infected with the local flue. I sometimes catch flue twice or three times a year, maybe not so often now.

jazzyzazzy

at 22:56 on June 10th, 2009

This is scary news,But how can we stop the err of man. Nothing surprises me about this issue of health. I often wonder if it is scare monger tactics to divert the public from something the goverment want to keep to themselves.It must be difficult to keep track of the animals and as you say the chickens and cocks get flue.Just dont go near them babelfish,as you point out the animals spread it...........So is there a magic solution.?

Babel-Fish

at 16:24 on June 11th, 2009

Some of solution's are here already in the Philippines, but need to be policed and amended. That no farm animals should be reared on land designated as residential unfortunately or fortunately that would include chicken (cockfighting, I am anti).

Farm animals to be transported in enclosed transport (high walled open top) Or killed on the farm by licensed exterminators before being transported in muslin cloth and in freezer truck.

The electronic method of tracing a possible flue carrier, placed at both gates in and out of every international air port. At present it would seem only inward passengers are checked?

But the main problem is the farm animals within residential area's

WHO should not file press releases that an outbreak is a pandemic until death threatening cases are confirmed outside of the country of outbreak. But work with the heath agencies directly. It should only be quoted as an epidemic until its spread to more than one other country. WHO should make a statement at a press release that clearly defines that flues of H1N1 nature normally weaken as they are past on to one human host to another.