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How to Prepare for a Pandemic: and Other Extended Disasters
How to Prepare for a Pandemic: and Other Extended Disasters We have been repeatedly warned by leading medical professionals and government health officials that a severe influenza pandemic is a very real possibility, with potential global death tolls exceeding 100 million. We are told that a pandemic will likely last 12-18 months in multiple waves, and to expect widespread social disruption. We are told that we need to stockpile non-perishable food and water, as our food supply chain and utilities may become severely degraded or completely inoperative. Yet there is little information available from them on how families can prepare for such a long term traumatic event.

This book lays out in detail the planning, preparation, and actions to take to avoid an inevitable mass scramble for suppliers' small and increasingly backlogged inventories of storable food, water storage and purification equipment, emergency lighting and communications, alternative transportation, and a host of other important necessities. The book provides planning guidelines and practical how-to for the;
  • type, quantity, and source of non-perishable food
  • techniques for collecting, storing, and purifying water
  • approaches for reliable lighting and staying informed in the event of a electrical grid collapse
  • formulas for sizing a solar PV system for backup (or everyday) power
  • ways to keep your house warm in the winter
  • measures to protect your family from public unrest
  • procedures to treat sick family members when hospitals are overwhelmed
  • approaches to simple cleaning and sanitation
  • and a host of other preparations needed for families to stay healthy and safe during a serious influenza pandemic.

    Reviews

    ?The book is crammed with lots of very valuable information on preparing for this emergency with the focus on the needs of the family. I found it very informative and helpful for making and improving the quality of my family?s plan. This is a unique and very timely contribution to the preparedness literature that is long overdue. It is a must read and reference text for anyone who is serious about preparing their home and family for the possibility of a severe influenza pandemic.?
    -- Dr. Grattan Woodson, MD, author The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner, The Bird Flu Manual

    ?An intensively researched, user-friendly, and imminently practical crash course in surviving on limited resources. Whether coming as a pandemic, hurricane, or ice storm, disaster-induced disruption of societal support systems is increasingly inevitable, and this guide is a must-have to help you and your loved ones plan to survive.?
    -- Thomas Honey, owner of Honey Electric Solar Inc.

    ?William Stewart?s How to Prepare for a Pandemic covers the breadth of disaster planning and is an important, comprehensive contribution to the literature of pandemic preparation.?
    -- Melanie Mattson, risk communicator, publisher The Flu Wiki


    Author: William Stewart
    Paperback:  112 pages
    Company: BookSurge Publishing  (2006-07-05) (2006-07-05)
    ISBN: 1419638785
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New York Times Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburn Fever to Avian Flu
New York Times Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburn Fever to Avian Flu
An epidemic strikes the United States, plunging the country into chaos. New York Times medical reporter Denise Grady uses this terrifying scenario, taken from the pages of a U.S. government report on the potential outcome of a pandemic, as the starting point for a journey into the gripping world of emerging diseases.

In search of a better understanding of these often deadly diseases, Grady heads to Angola, the site of the 2005 Marburg virus epidemic, a disease closely related to Ebola. On the ground, and sometimes frighteningly close to victims of the disease, Denise explores the realities of health care in the developing world, and its potential effects on our own welfare.

With supplemental sidebars that explain key scientific and social issues and in-depth chapters on the origins and spread of Marburg, avian flu, HIV, SARS, West Nile virus, hantavirus, and monkeypox, this is a fascinating look at the health dangers we face in a global society.


Author: Denise Grady
Hardcover:  128 pages
Company: Kingfisher  (2006-10-25) (2006-10-25)
ISBN: 0753459957
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Library has range of resources on avian 'flu.(BOOKS): An article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
This digital document is an article from Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1797 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Library has range of resources on avian 'flu.(BOOKS)
Author: Linda Stopforth
Publication: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 11 Issue: 10 Page: 24(2)

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Author: Linda Stopforth
Digital:  6 pages HTML
Company: Thomson Gale  (2005-11-01) (2005-12-08)
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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease?yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question?or the actual risks of contagion?but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood.

Alcabes examines epidemics through history to show how they reflect the particular social and cultural anxieties of their times. From Typhoid Mary to bioterrorism, as new outbreaks are unleashed or imagined, new fears surface, new enemies are born, and new behaviors emerge. Dread dissects the fascinating story of the imagined epidemic: the one that we think is happening, or might happen; the one that disguises moral judgments and political agendas, the one that ultimately expresses our deepest fears.



Author: Philip Alcabes
Hardcover:  336 pages
Company: PublicAffairs  (2009-04-13)
ISBN: 1586486187
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Avian Flu (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)
Avian Flu (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics) In the last few years, the avian flu, or bird flu, has become a growing worry around the world. Although avian influenza once infected only birds, the new avian flu virus that has emerged from Asia can be passed on from birds to humans with deadly results. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are closely monitoring what could be the next deadly flu pandemic, especially the possibility of the virus mutating into a strand that could be transmitted from human to human. "Avian Flu" examines the history and science of this disease, as well as how it affects the body. This book also discusses the symptoms and treatment, bringing forward vital information on this timely topic.

Author: Jeffrey N. Sfakianos
Paperback:  88 pages
Company: Checkmark Books  (2007-03-30)
ISBN: 0791095479
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Bird Flu Vaccine Print E-mail
Bird Flu Vaccine Effective bird flu vaccines against a pandemic virus are not yet available to the public. Some clinical trials are now under way to test effectiveness of different possibilities. Vaccines are produced each year for seasonal influenza but will not protect against pandemic influenza.  Although a vaccine against the H5N1 virus is under development in several countries, no vaccine is totally ready for commercial production and no vaccines are expected to be widely available until several months after the start of a pandemic.

The irony of it is really related to how a vaccine works. Only after an illness has spread, can an effective vaccine be perfected. Because the vaccine needs to closely match the pandemic virus, large-scale commercial production will not start until the new virus has emerged and a pandemic has been declared. Current global production capacity would not meet the demand expected during a pandemic.

There are some drugs that are available for treatment.

Two drugs (in the neuraminidase inhibitors class), oseltamivir (commercially known as Tamiflu) and zanamivir (commercially known as Relenza) can reduce the severity and duration of illness caused by seasonal influenza. The efficacy of the neuraminidase inhibitors depends on their administration within 48 hours after symptom onset. For cases of human infection with H5N1, the drugs may improve prospects of survival, if administered early, but clinical data are limited. The H5N1 virus is expected to be susceptible to the neuraminidase inhibitors.

An older class of antiviral drugs, the M2 inhibitors amantadine and rimantadine, could potentially be used against pandemic influenza, but resistance to these drugs can develop rapidly and this could significantly limit their effectiveness against pandemic influenza. Some currently circulating H5N1 strains are fully resistant to these the M2 inhibitors. However, should a new virus emerge through reassortment, the M2 inhibitors might be effective.

For the neuraminidase inhibitors, the main constraints – which are substantial – involve limited production capacity and a price that is prohibitively high for many countries. At present manufacturing capacity, which has recently quadrupled, it will take a decade to produce enough oseltamivir to treat 20% of the world’s population. The manufacturing process for oseltamivir is complex and time-consuming, and is not easily transferred to other facilities.


So far, most fatal pneumonia seen in cases of H5N1 infection has resulted from the effects of the virus, and cannot be treated with antibiotics. Nonetheless, since influenza is often complicated by secondary bacterial infection of the lungs, antibiotics could be life-saving in the case of late-onset pneumonia. WHO regards it as prudent for countries to ensure adequate supplies of antibiotics in advance.
 
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Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic
Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic "Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker

"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal' that, and applies reason in seeking the answers."
-John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

"Timely and needed. At such times, we need soothsayers and explicators to redirect the ready-fire-aim mindset. Siegel's book fulfills this role well."
-The Journal of the American Medical Association

As bird flu sweeps through Asia, the rest of the world has begun to worry that it might spread west and start infecting humans. As many experts have pointed out, an influenza pandemic is only a matter of time and that time could be now. Or is it? In Bird Flu, Dr. Marc Siegel cuts through the hype, the facts, the fears, and the realities to explain what has the experts so worried and why there's still plenty of reason to be calm. Among the questions he answers are:
* What is bird flu, and who has it?
* What can I do to protect my family?
* Should I stockpile Tamiflu?
* Will this be like the deadly Spanish flu of 1918?
* Why is there no bird flu vaccine?
* Will the annual flu shot protect me?

In his sensible and entertaining style, Siegel looks at the advances we've made in treatments, the research still to be done, and the challenges ahead for Asia to lay out a realistic plan for ending this global threat. While a bird flu outbreak in the United States may or may not happen this year, there's still a great deal of work to be done in readying America for outbreaks of any kind.

Author: Marc Siegel
Paperback:  208 pages
Company: Wiley  (2006-01-23)
ISBN: 0470038640
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Bird Flu What to Do: Prepare to Survive
Bird Flu What to Do: Prepare to Survive BIRD FLU WHAT TO DO: PREPARE TO SURVIVE is a concise, yet comprehensive book that outlines disaster preparation - with a particular focus on what to do if there is an influenza pandemic - for ordinary citizens, covering food/water storage, special needs of those unable to care for themselves, neighborhood and community organization, home health care under dire circumstance, quarantine preparation, and safety/security issues at home. The book both consolidates resources available to the public and goes beyond what is accessible to the ordinary citizen with contributions from experts in diverse fields, and an extended appendix covering what to get, where to get it and additional information that could prove lifesaving.

The book is not fear based, but attempts to normalize disaster preparation, posing it as one the most socially responsible thing we can "just do." This book fills the gap between what public health can do and what we ordinary citizens need to do. Communities, neighborhoods, and families that have made the effort to prepare to survive natural disasters will be more resilient if and when a natural disaster occurs.

Author: Verona Fonté
Paperback:  144 pages
Company: Iris Arts Press  (2006-06-01)
ISBN: 0977103714
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God's Strategy for the Bird Flu Pandemic
God's Strategy for the Bird Flu Pandemic We are facing a deadly H5N1 Virus of apocalyptic proportions. Read how the miraculous power of God was the answer to the flu in 1918 and is your answer today.

Author: Glen, E Talbott
Paperback:  92 pages
Company: Xulon Press  (2006-06-29)
ISBN: 1600341675
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Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching From age-old scourges such as smallpox and tuberculosis to emerging threats like AIDS and SARS, our interactions with animals have always played a pivotal role as a source of human disease. Bird flu is the latest such menace coming home to roost. Leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe.

The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus into a killer? In Bird Flu, Dr. Michael Greger traces the human role in the evolution of this virus, whose humble beginnings belie its transformation into a killer mutant strain with the potential to become as ferocious as Ebola and as contagious as the common cold. In the face of the coming pandemic, Dr. Greger reveals what we can do to protect our families and what human society to can do to reduce the likelihood of such catastrophes in the future.

Amid the growing panic surrounding this issue, Dr. Greger takes a sobering look at a deadly cycle and offers a solution to ending it.

Author: Michael Greger
Hardcover:  465 pages
Company: Lantern Books  (2006-11-15)
ISBN: 1590560981
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When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad!: How Safe Are We? (24/7: Science Behind the Scenes)
When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad!: How Safe Are We? (24/7: Science Behind the Scenes) Medical Files examines the science and technology behind some of the most fascinating medical cases and mysteries, from flesh-eating diseases to deadly mosquito bites, and more.

Author: John DiConsiglio
Paperback:  64 pages
Company: Children's Press(CT)  (2007-09)
ISBN: 0531175286
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