The Avian
Flu Pandemic: When It Strikes, Will You Be Ready?
" Up to one billion people could die around the whole world
in six months.... We are half a step away from a worldwide
pandemic catastrophe."
---Dmitry K. Lvov, Director, D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of
Virology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
A flu pandemic occurs when a “new” strain of
the virus emerges. These new strains attack the susceptible
public generally about three times each century. In 1918,
a major flu pandemic killed about 50 million people worldwide.
The recent information we have received about the possibility
of the avian flu mutating into a new strain has thrown
the scientific community into high alert mode. The Director
of the World Health Organization maintains that we can
expect another influenza pandemic very soon. The world
must be prepared for it, he says, or face dire consequences.
Here are a few strategies that you can put into place
now to protect yourself and your family, anticipating
the very
worst situation: a killer flu pandemic.
