A great primer on how to prepare your family for a serious flu pandemic is available from a health study group: Pandemic Influenza Preparation and Response: A Citizen’s Guide (via hilzoy at Obsidian Wings)
We can all hope that it just won’t get that bad. And it probably won’t. For balance, quixote has a flu faction and fiction post on Shakesville (read the earlier post on Bird Flu at his own blog as well).
Related Posts:
- You know what I hate? by tigtog
- PSA: The CDC on swine flu and breastfeeding by Lauredhel
- “Obesity Drops Risk of Severe Swine Flu More Than 40%” by Lauredhel
* Quicklink to recent open threads
And now confirmed cases in NZ.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/2368393/Swine-flu-in-New-Zealand-cases-confirmed
The shitty reporting on this issue may kill me before the pandemic does.
[...] There seem to be two responses to the swing flu outbreak. Calm, reasonable, responses that separate the reality from hype (via Tigtog). [...]
Actually, coverage in the UK (other than the Daily Star’s “750,000 Britons Could Perish!!”, but that’s the Star of course) has been pretty measured. It’s absolutely everywhere of course, but is still along the lines of we may have a problem here – don’t panic yet, but be aware.
I’ll be very interested to see what explanation emerges for the death rate in Mexico given that all the exported cases seem to be very mild and closer to normal seasonal flu in severity.