Source: The Independent
Over one-hundred are dead from the bird flu.
This "it may never happen" pandemic is gaining full steam.
The bird flu deaths of five people in Azerbaijan have pushed the world total human deaths from H5N1 past 100, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
WHO said seven of 11 patients from Azerbaijan had tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu in samples checked at a major laboratory in Britain. Five of the cases were fatal.
The new global total of confirmed deaths from H5N1 is 103. Those deaths are part of the total 184 confirmed human cases of H5N1 since it broke out in Asia in 2003. Six of the 11 cases occurred in a small settlement in southeastern Azerbaijan.
I hope people are taking this threat seriously. Preparation, storage of water, canned goods, and essentials is something everyone should be doing right now.
Don't wait for a government response, if there is one. (Remember Katrina?)
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