Health Policy: Avian Flu

1. Health Policy: Avian Flu By: Kathrina Chen Metropolitan Learning Center Bloomfield,CT, USA Foreign Policy PPH1

2. Influenza • Influenza or the Flu- An acute contagious viral infection characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract and by fever, chills, muscular pain, and prostration. (dictionary.com)

3. Avian Flu is global Health threat • originated from China • Spread quickly across seas and oceans • Looked upon as a possible big threat to the United States • About120 people have been infected and 60 have died Current Flu Scare

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8. Bubonic Plague • Took place in the 14th century • The single worst outbreak in Europe • Brought to Europe from the East by the Mongols • Spread by rats Historical Cases

9. 1918 Influenza Pandemic • An Avian Flu • Spread all over the world • Millions died • Wiped out whole villages • “It was a plague so deadly that if a similar virus were to strike today, it would kill more people in a single year than heart disease, cancers, strokes, chronic pulmonary disease, AIDS, and Alzheimer’s disease combined.” (Kolata 1) • “…in a worst case extrapolation from the toll of the 1918 Spanish flu, could kill 150 million people—2.5 percent of the world’s population—in a matter of months.” (Adler 40) Historical Cases

10. Bush’s New Policy What is Being Done • “First, we must detect outbreaks that occur anywhere in the world; second, we must protect the American people by stockpiling vaccines and antiviral drugs, and improve our ability to rapidly produce new vaccines against a pandemic strain; and, third, we must be ready to respond at the federal, state and local levels in the event that a pandemic reaches our shores.” President bushes Avian Flu speech

11. Bush’s New Policy • Limited imports on goods to the East • Testing of Birds • Study for a better Vaccine • Treating the sick • Stock up on vaccines What is Being Done

12. Quarantine • Shutout virus • Stop trade with certain countries • Limit trade • Surround the virus to kill it What should be done

13. Constant testing as the virus • Virus Mutates • Could become ineffective What should be done

14. Global Action • "A flu pandemic would have global consequences," he said as he jabbed his lectern, "so no nation can afford to ignore this threat, and every nation has responsibilities to detect and stop its spread.” (Adler 42; quote from Leavitt) What should be done

15. Global Action • Discuss the flu with group of nation • Work together to exchange information about the flu • Global action for a potential global problem What should be done

16. Imports and Exports • Test all goods and foods imported • This would be made ineffective if the black market is strongly active What should be done

17. The Black Market • Stop import of anything that could be carrying a disease • Animals smuggled in the black market could have diseases • Basically anything smuggled could have bacteria on it that could cause deadly disease What should be done

18. Countries are not as serious • There is a common threat • Some are worried others not so much IEarn Learning Circle

19. Many countries aren’t prepared • There has been a max of vaccine for 20% of the population (Germany response) • The people in countries in the west are Optimist or don’t know of the Avian Flu IEarn Learning Circle

20. “There willhave more than five million people get flu even die!” Washington, USA • Bird movement spread disease • Stop the sale of bird meat • Extermination of infected birds IEarn Learning Circle

21. “The Avian Flu is dangerous but it has not arrived in our country, because the migrating birds don’t come here. However the scientists suspect that just one cock was infected by this flu. The government isn't even thinking about controlling this epidemic if enters in the country so there is no medicine to control it.” (Brazil) IEarn Learning Circle

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23. Sources • Adler, Jerry. “The Fight Against the Flu”. News Week. October 31, 2005. 38-45 • Bush Jr., George. Avian Flu Policy. The White House. Nov. 01, 2005 Bethesda, Maryland. William Natcher Center. National Institutes of Health. November 01, 2005. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051101-1.html> • Davies, Pete. The Devil’s Flu…. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000 • Garrettt, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Disease in a World Out of Balance. New York: Peguin Group, 1995 • Harris, Gardiner. “The New York Times.” Bush Announce’s Plan to Prepare for Flu Epidemic. 2005. New York Times. 07 Nov 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/politics/02bush.html • “KCOM Journal”. The Influenza Pandemic Will bw Arriving Soon.2005. Eid Mubarak. 06 Nov. 06 2005 <http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=12166&TagID=1> • Kolata, Gina. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999