Monday, November 3, 2014

More good news.

H7N9: The Next Influenza Pandemic?

1 comment:

TRex said...

We shouldn't be panicked over any particular virus that may or may not enter our species from chickens, or elsewhere. In the case of H7N9, the risk is overstated probably to sell...

OTOH, there is ALWAYS another pandemic around the corner, and we will play whack a mole with them for however long it take for Jesus to return.

I kind of monitor emerging threats and the blog I cite and quote at the end of this comment is my "go to" for information.

It is mighty easy to panic if we forget that God is in charge, and our only responsibility is to make reasonable choices in life. We prepare for the bumps in the road, and the occasional "bridge out" but ultimately, Jesus is our keeper and in the end it is He who will determine how our future will come about.

So, stay calm, prep on, and trust God to make it all work out in the end.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2014/09/coston-its-not-just-ebola.html

"Via his blog Avian Flu Diary, Mike Coston reminds us It’s Not Just Ebola. This is a summary of other disease threats we face, documented with many links. Excerpt:

And of course, to this rogues gallery of pandemic threats you can also add any number of influenza subtypes in the wild (including old pandemic viruses like H2N2 and H3N8), the growing ranks of antibiotic resistant bacteria which could prove every bit as deadly as a pandemic, and Virus X . . . the one that isn’t on our radar, yet.
The point here is that once Ebola is contained (I remain cautiously optimistic that it will be, but fully expect it to exact a horrendous cost) the threat posed to global public health by these emerging diseases doesn’t go away. If anything, with our growing population and increasing mobility, the threat grows greater with each passing year.
If fact, we will be lucky if another shoe doesn’t drop this winter while our international efforts are focused primarily on West Africa."