Earlier bird flu vaccine 'causes new strain'

Ironically, it may have been a vaccine that was used to protect poultry from earlier types of the H5N1 flu that led to the virus' evolution.
The new variant has become the primary version of bird flu in several provinces of China and has spread to Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand, according to a report published in the latest issue of Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences.
It is being called H5N1 Fujian-like, to distinguish it from earlier Hong Kong and Vietnam variants.
'We don't know what is driving this,' report co-author Dr Robert G Webster of St Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, said.
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Fall Brings Migratory Birds Across US Waterways

Now is the time for wild birds to begin migrating south for the winter and so we see flocks of geese and ducks flying over waterways all over the US.
The world watches and waits to see what this new bird migration will bring.
I tend to err on the side of caution and believe it's better to be prepared then to wait till there's a pandemic and people panicking all over the place. To avoid the lines at the grocery stores even just because of the holidays you may want to look into buying your groceries online and stocking up on flu meds for the busy flu season ahead.

Many Actually Survive Bird Flu

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Lee actually survived it all. Although he “started” the Bird Flu pandemic, he also helped “end” it. Doctors used his blood to find the initial vaccine. Since Lee was also now immune, he not only volunteered to help where he could and also founded the World Association of Sensible Hygiene (WASH). More importantly, Lee and others like him helped disrupted societies regain their faith and hope and love. Since this was pandemic number 11 in the last 300 years, history had taught that it was inevitable that individuals and communities and countries would bounce back fairly quickly. But a bitter question remained. Would Lee and the rest of the world be better prepared for the next pandemic? Lee wondered that too as he bordered the wide-body Airbus destined for Mexico City.

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The First Wave of the Bird Flu Pandemic

Before the Bird Flu gets here Cont'd from previous days post...The Waves The first wave of the Bird Flu pandemic was over in three months time but not the shock. Bacterial disease such as cholera multiplied rapidly with catastrophic results across Africa and Asia. The longer-term, global recession began with the realization that supply-lines, manufacturing and food-production chains were desperately weakened through labor loss. Medical facilities were terribly understaffed. As usual, the poor had little chance of aid at all. And then came the second wave of Avian flu. It took over a year before the waves of sickness and death became controllable.

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The Controversy over Bird Flu

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The Controversy
Local governments and health organizations began to squabble over who had the power to do what. The question was of legalities: who would control distribution of anti-viral drugs for the Bird Flu and who would receive those drugs? Army barracks received attention but prisoners were ignored. Families with pets were labeled as ‘higher risk’ groups but no-one knew if these families should receive more help or less. As in-fighting became more severe, decision processing became more difficult. Who should give the daily press briefings? Who would organize mass cremation? Who would facilitate conferences for global medical meetings? The list grew rapidly.

To be Cont'd.

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Cities Shut down by Bird Flu

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The Short-term Havoc

Rumors and half-truths began to circulate causing public outcry and protests. Because the protests only helped spread the flu, quarantines were set in place. The public was told to stay at home indefinitely. Vibrant cities screeched to a halt as public transport shut down. Streets stank as garbage piled up. Shops were looted and in some cases those caught coughing were stoned. Safety services (fire, police, ambulance) were disrupted, fires burned out of control. Cross-border travel was curtailed killing tourism and all international sports events were cancelled. Food imports were banned creating shortages of meat, vegetables and wheat. Folk with chronic medical illnesses couldn’t get their medications. Soap and disinfectants – perhaps the simplest and most effective fight against the spread of disease – were in short supply; no one had thought to stock-pile soap.
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Public Nervous About Bird Flu

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It wasn’t long before Lee was put on a respirator in quarantine. It also wasn’t long before the media found out Lee had Bird Flu. The public became nervous. The number of flu patients – real or imaginary – multiplied dramatically but nurses and hospital staff were strangely missing … using overdue holiday time or just not showing up for work at all. It was announced that schools, restaurants, and non-essential businesses would be closed. No deadline was given – no one knew for sure how long the measures would have to be in place.

The Public Announcement
Wisely, the public was advised to stock up on food and water. Newspapers advised people to stock up on toothpaste, toilet paper and treasure (cash). People were told to shop at off-peak hours and public transport was ordered to run 24 hours per day. But despite warnings to the contrary, doctor’s offices, hospitals and clinics were overrun. Faces masked in paper waited for hours in front of pharmacies in hope of getting relief. Despite clear instructions from health officials, panic broke out as folk finally fathomed that at best only one third of the population had access to anti-viral drugs. In rural areas and smaller towns, there wasn’t any chance at all.

To be Cont'd.

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Bird Flu Infected Passengers on Plane

This is a continuation of the previous days story-it is a fictional account of the spread of Bird Flu starting with one traveling business man.

Lee was not the only one in this fight. Infected passengers from Lee’s plane from Hong Kong had connecting flights to major cities in most continents. The global executives Lee had addressed at the office had also flown home diseased. Sadly, some of the medical staff where Lee was diagnosed had also caught it not to mention the crowds Lee had interacted with at concerts, restaurants and on shopping sprees. The so-called Bird Flu or Avian Influenza had indeed spread its wings. It was the start of the first flu pandemic of the 21st century.
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Had Lee or any of the others known in time, they would have taken anti-viral drugs hoping to block or at least slow down the replication of the virus. At least the severity of some symptoms might have been eased not to mention a reduction in the duration of sickness. But time had run out - anti-viral medication needed to be taken within 48 hours of the first stages of the disease.

To be Cont'd.

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Was the Diagnosis Bird Flu?

Was The Diagnosis Bird FLu?

Lee was exhausted. He had a cough, scratchy throat, runny nose and muscle aches. A fever started but it wasn’t until Lee began having difficulties breathing that he decided to get help.

Doctors huddled in subdued discussion. Experts were rushed in. It was finally determined that Lee’s body was fighting strenuously against two viruses. Lee had caught a highly infectious Influenza A virus – a flu bug. However, at much the same time he had also picked up a second virus called H5N1. The two viruses had mixed their genes and formed a hybrid. Since this was now a radically new pathogen, Lee had no immunity to it.

To be Cont'd.

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How the Bird Flu Pandemic May Spread

Just how do influenza pandemics break out and what can we expect from the H5N1 or avian flu version? What might the short and long term consequences look like? Here is a Bird Flu scenario based on historical facts and well-educated guesses from experts. Be aware and Before the Bird Flu gets here prepare. Lee tried to stifle a sneeze but couldn’t. Invisible to the naked eye, a cloud of almost five thousand virus-filled droplets launched into the air at some 150 km/ hour or roughly 100 mph. Some passengers in the wide-body Airbus frowned. The Hong Kong to London flight was long and no one wanted to catch a cold.

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Lee planned to fill every waking moment of his stay in London. A concert at the Millennium Dome, dinners at some of the finest hotels, shopping in crowded malls – "What a chance," Lee thought. All he had to concentrate on was a few hours in front of the International Board. It was his job to present sales trends in China to the bosses who were also winging it towards Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports. "The global executives will get only good news from me," figured Lee. "Pity I don’t feel better …"to be continued....

More Thoughts on How Bird Flu May Change Our Lives

There were a few things I left out of my previous Bird Flu article that I remembered later that may effect many of us to some extent. When traveling some of us may want to wear masks while on airplanes, bus terminals, waiting rooms, hotel lobbies-this happened with SARS remember-it was commonplace during that time to see everyone wearing masks in the countries that were affected.
I think that the initial immediate losers would be airlines, luxury goods, hotels, travel industry. And the winners would be the pharmaceutical industry, biotechs, especially those who were working on the development of vaccines, hospitals and cleaning supply companies and medical supply companies.
You will see investors moving more into the bond market as a safe haven and out of the equity markets.

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The New Economy Under Bird Flu

There will come a time when bird flu will enter this country and it will affect the way we do everything. At first it will cause a panic that will make people scramble to stock up on medical supplies like masks and gloves and set aside groceries for survival. Then as people settle into the idea of still having to go to work and make a living there will be a re-emergence of interest in doing things online. I am hoping that people will cut back on driving to their offices and put more effort into learning how to email files to each other for updates and using email more for communication. Emailing invoices instead of postal mailing them. Paying bills online more because that will be thought of as more reliable as our postal workers are affected.
Grocery shopping online will see an upswing.
Sit down type restaurants and bars will see their business slow down alot as people will be eating at home more, or only ordering food to go as it is served single service. The single service sector will see an upswing because disposable cups, plates and such will be considered safer.
These are just a few of the industries that you will see changes in as we adjust to less social contact. People will consider staying at home more and doing more things at home such as gardening and home improvement.
I also predict that it will cause gas prices to rise so much that it will pressure people into working from home more online and employers will try harder to accomodate them than they are now.
These are just a few of the things we can look forward to and you will be ahead of the game if you can steer your life in that direction ahead of time so that it isn't such a strain when the time comes. Start off by looking at what you do now, ask yourself what things can you can change to use less gas and that you can you do from home?
I hope this article gets people to thinking about how they can make their life easier in the future by taking action now.
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Using RSS Feeds to Promote Your Website

Almost ANY web based content can be transformed into an RSS feed. The only real requirement is that the information changes regularly.
Typically, the main use of RSS is to present headlines and a short introduction to "newsy" stories. Create an RSS feed on your site featuring your company press releases, site updates, etc.
I do this using blogger and then put a link to my RSS feed on my Internet Advertising Website.
You can see the little RSS button to the right of the link to this blog on the above page. You can ask your website developer to put a link to your blog and RSS feed on your site or do it yourself.
You can use your RSS feed to announce Upcoming Events, thoughts and commentary, opinions, articles, introducing new products, monthly specials, newsletters and to tell people about new pages you have added to your site.
Once you've got your feed going... remember to submit your feed URLs to the various RSS Feed Directories.

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What Happens When you Quit Blogging

Recently I had a customer that wanted me to quit blogging about his dump trailers because he thought he could do it himself. Well he still hasn't created one sentence so it seems his website is now falling down on the search engines. This just goes to show you how important it is to have fresh new content pointing to your site. I told him he had better get started on it or have me do his blogging for him or he was going to lose all the search engines real estate we had worked so hard to cover. Meaning it is an uphill battle to get up on the tops of the search engines and once you are there on the first page of a search you need to continue to keep on doing what you are doing or you will very quickly fall back down again. Recently I decided to start my own blog about used heavy equipment since I also do quite well selling that aside from my website creation and internet advertising business. So if you would like to see a fresh new blog that I just started then please visit My Used Heavy Equipment blog. And if you need help with your own blog I only charge $10 per paragraph per day to get started and can teach you how to do it yourself by following my example.
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Using a Blog as a 2nd Website for One Way Links

I have been blogging for my customer Maxi Dump about dump trailers and added pictures on the left hand side of the blog going to different pages of their website. Adding thumbnails on your own blog with links going to your website is a great way to get more traffic to your site because they are all one way links. Be sure to label your images to give the search engines more keywords to look at. You can label them using the alt and title tags as well as by putting names under your images. If you don't know how to blog I can do that for you for $10 per paragraph per day and also add image links to your blog for only $5 per image. You email me the images and I crop and resize them to fit then add the proper html to your blog template. To see what I am talking about go to Maxi Dumps Blog. For internet advertising advice please see
How To Improve Your Website for the Search Engines.
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Save Gas by Finding Ways to Work From Home

I am the envy of my many friends and relatives that must commute to work every day and with gas prices going up I can gloat even more. I have told them for years to find ways for their employers to let them work from home. Many of them work on computers too but for some reason their jobs are slow to turn to telecommuting. It's been around for ages but it's taken me years just to get my own customers used to doing email rather than calling me. If they want to see me in person they can learn to use instant messenger and see me on my webcam. After a few times of that entertainment they get used to just chatting with it. Most work that is done in an office can be done from home-if people would just put the effort forth to make it happen. You can have paper files Fedexed to you to work on if they can't be emailed to you or disks mailed to you. I get Fedex packages all the time with work from my customers-mostly because they don't know how to email a file they already have on their computer. With the bird flu approaching more and more companies are going to seriously think about ways their employees can work from home. Now is the time to find ways for more people to do their work from home - not when they are too sick to come in or helping a loved one that is. I just heard on the news that some companies are preparing for this eventuality-so now is the time to mention telecommuting to the boss-he doesn't have to know it's because you just want to save on gas.
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Cheap Local Advertising in Cinemas

Advertising at the Movies: Finally, here's one that often gets overlooked. If you turn up to the cinema early, you might have seen that before the big-budget ads, ads for local businesses are run. This can be a great place to advertise relatively inexpensively in quite a high-profile way, and it has been found to work especially well for takeaway food businesses.
With the myriad of different types of advertising it is hard to figure out what is the best place to start so if you need a little free advice about how to advertise your website be sure to drop me a line so I can point you in the right direction. You may also want to visit my page about "How to Improve Your Websites Performance".
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Website Advertising on Billboards

Website Advertising on Billboards: Here's one that gets overlooked pretty often, but can be very effective if you do it right. Billboard ads are relatively expensive, but they do generally stay up for a long time, and they can be very specifically targeted to an area -- the one where they're physically located. You'll have the best results with this if you can put one near enough to your business that it could say 'turn left at the next junction', or something like that. Phone numbers are, again, pretty useless, although you could have some luck putting a website address up there.
Think of the many other advertising possibilites for your website: Skywriting, Airplane Banners, Hot Air Balloons - that could be a fun business expense.
OK-let's not get too crazy just yet-start off with your website address on your brochures, letterhead and business cards.
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Advertising your Website on Television

Have you noticed that almost every company that advertises on television has a website that they flash up on the screeen at the end of the ad? Have you thought about "Advertising on Television"? Unless your business is getting pretty big, this would be quite a bad idea. You'd have trouble producing and airing an ad even on local cable channels for less than $10,000. Of course, if there's a market for your product and you've got the budget for this, you could take a gamble and make a mint. The home businesses that tend to do best out of TV ads are ones that have a 'unique and useful invention' product with easy-to-demonstrate benefits -- think infomercial. Research shows that you can sell almost anything given a 60-second ad, a free phone number and a price point of $19.95.
In some markets advertising on TV is quite reasonable locally but be sure to mention your website in your ad. It is unbeleivable the number of big business owners that forget to do this. Mention your website on everything you have your company name printed on. Sometimes people are more apt to go to a website before they even call you on the phone because they don't want to have to deal with salespeople or being put on hold.
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Ways to Advertise Your Website

To continue my discussion about other types of advertising to day I will talk about advertising on the Radio: Wherever you are, the chances are that there's a local radio station. Once your home business grows to a decent size, you might consider buying some time on it.
Really, though, the only kind of home business that can benefit enough from radio ads to justify the cost is one that has anything to do with cars. Since radio is almost entirely limited to use as in-car entertainment now, you know that almost everyone your ad reaches will be a car-owner, and so might be interested in what you're offering. If you offer something that people need cheaply or even for free, you can get a big response.
Unfortunately, that response could be a little too big -- thanks to the time-sensitivity of radio, you'll get mobbed the next day, and then everyone will forget you again. Radio advertising offers the listener no opportunity to keep your ad and refer to it later, or to find it again in the future. You will find that any ads involving a phone number are spectacularly useless. It does help of course to repeat your website address at least 3 times in the ad in the hope they will write it down or remember it.
More to come tommorrow about ways to advertise your website.
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