Bush to Unveil Super-Flu Strategy Tuesday

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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:08:48 EST

Re: PSYCHO Bush Boy Announces 'Flu TYRANNY' TOMORROW!

 

 

This could be the ploy to get national martial law declared nationwide

and then we will see how efficient FEMA can be when they are doing

their real job, rounding up anyone that doesn't follow the NWO agenda.

Be alert and don't let yourself be stampeded by the media whores and

their NWO handlers. S.

 

 

 

 

 

Bush to Unveil Super-Flu Strategy Tuesday - News

Posted: Saturday October 29,2005 - 04:00:13 pm

 

 

 

 

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer 2 hours, 1 minute ago

 

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's long-awaited plan on

how to fight the next super-flu will likely include beefed-up attempts

to spot human infections early, both here and abroad.

 

Expect recommendations on how to isolate the sick. Governors and

mayors are on notice to figure out who will actually inject

stockpiled vaccines into the arms of panicked people.

 

Bush on Tuesday is visiting the National Institutes of

Health to announce his administration's strategy on how to prepare for

the next flu pandemic, whether it's caused by the bird flu in Asia or

some other super strain of influenza. Federal health officials have

spent the last year updating a national plan on how to do that.

 

The president will ask Congress for unspecified new money,

not just for a vaccine against bird flu but to fund a buildup of

infrastructure ready to deal with any pandemic, said a senior

administration official, who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity.

 

Stockpiling drugs and vaccines is just one component.

 

" Understand that a lot of the things we need to do to

prepare are not related to magic bullets, " said Michael Osterholm of

the University of Minnesota, an infectious disease specialist who has

advised the government on preparations for the next worldwide flu

outbreak but has not seen the final version of the plan.

 

How to provide food supplies, everyday medical care for

people who don't have the super-flu, basic utilities and even security

must be part of the plan, Osterholm and others have counseled the Bush

administration.

 

" In this day and age of a global economy, with just-in-time

delivery and no surge capacity and international supply chains †"

those things are very difficult to do for a week, let alone for 12 to

18 months of what will be a very tough time, " he said.

 

While it is impossible to say when the next super-flu will

strike, there have been three pandemics in the last century and

influenza experts say the world is overdue. Concern is growing that

the bird flu could trigger one if it mutates to start spreading easily

among people †" something that hasn't yet happened.

 

Already the government is buying $162.5 million worth of

vaccine against that bird flu strain, called H5N1, from two companies

†" Sanofi-Aventis and Chiron Corp. †" in case that happens. It also

is ordering millions of doses of Tamiflu and Relenza, two antiflu

drugs believed to offer some protection against the bird flu,

stockpiles that the pandemic plan is expected to order be augmented.

 

Lawmakers angry at months of delay have already given Bush

money to begin those preparations: $8 billion in emergency funding

that the Senate, pushed by Democrats, passed on Thursday †" and an

amount considered close to what federal health officials will need.

 

The money is to be spent at the president's discretion, but

senators said it should be used both for medications and vaccine and

for beefing up hospitals and other systems to detect and contain a

super-flu.

 

Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass.,

called the funding " a victory for common sense. "

 

But amid growing public fear about the bird flu, federal

health officials are beginning to wonder about a backlash if the

worrisome strain in fact fizzles out †" or is contained in birds, as

specialists are struggling to do †" and never threatens Americans'

health.

 

" Will critics say, 'We have been crying wolf,' and lose the

sense of urgency we feel about this issue? " Health and Human Services

Secretary Mike Leavitt asked last week.

 

They shouldn't, he stressed †" because pandemic

preparations to improve how vaccines are made and diseases are

detected will improve public health overall.

 

" If it isn't the current H5N1 cirus that leads to an

influenza pandemic, at some point in our nation's future another virus

will, " Leavitt said.