Indonesia’s Bird-Flu Death Toll At 140 - That’s 40 Deaths In Under 20 Days!

At the end of January, we posted the latest Indonesian death toll which at that time was 100.  As of February 16th the toll was at 140 - that’s 4o deaths in under 20 days! Where is the global concern, folks? At any time Bird Flu can become the next Human Flu, rapidly spreading across the globe. Perhaps we firmly believe that the ever under-stocked Tamiflu will save us. Or maybe it’s just that a vaccine for a strain of influenza whose make up we have no way of predicting will be developed in advance. It’s likely, however, that as we haven’t faced a threat of such magnitude for so considerable a period of time we have forgotten what the impact on our social stability might be and as a result are content to rely on drugs as the answer.

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