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06/01/06

H5N1 - Avian Influenza in Ukraine

Posted by : Angela in Ukraine Adoption Blog at 09:28 am , 335 words, 241 views  
Categories: News Stories


In early December 2005, Ukraine reported that H5N1 was found in domesticated birds. And just yesterday the US Embassy in Ukraine emailed out a Warden Message on H5N1. It has turned up in wild birds this time in Kherson.

The WHO is very worried about cases of human illness (linked to H5N1) in Indonesia. It looks like human transmittion of the virus may be happening there.

Why you should care about this:


  • Influenza pandemics are recurring events.


  • The world may be on the brink of another pandemic.

  • All countries will be affected.


  • Widespread illness will occur.


  • Medical supplies will be inadequate.


  • Large numbers of deaths will occur.


  • Economic and social disruption will be great.



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Here is what the US Embassy in Ukraine had to say about the Kherson outbreak.

On May 16, 2006, the Government of Ukraine confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in a wild waterfowl colony on an island in Lake Sivash in Kherson Oblast. The island is near a popular boating and tourist destination. No human cases of avian influenza have been detected anywhere in Ukraine.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) advises travelers to countries with documented H5N1 outbreaks to avoid poultry farms, contact with animals in live food markets, and any surfaces that appear to be contaminated with feces or fluids from poultry or other animals. The U.S. Embassy reminds U.S. citizens in Ukraine that information about avian influenza ("avian flu," "bird flu," "chicken flu"), including suggested precautions, is available in the U.S. Department of State’s “Avian Flu Fact Sheet” at http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/health/health_1181.html. This website includes links to avian influenza information from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).


Adoptive parents traveling to Ukraine have enough to worry about. I would suggest avoiding duck ponds, chickens and any meat markets.

And I highly recommend families purchase Travel Health Insurance.

Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: pchavaillaz [Member] Email
Take a look at this.
Love from the Universe, Dr Ruza Bogdanovich

"Bird Flu"
Do you know that 'bird flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9 years ago?
Do you know that barely 100 people have died in the whole world in all that time?
Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us to the efficacy of the human antiviral TAMIFLU as a preventative.
Do you know that TAMIFLU barely alleviates some symptoms of the common flu?
Do you know that its efficacy against the common flu is questioned by a great part of the scientific community?
Do you know that against a SUPPOSED mutant virus such as H5N1, TAMIFLU barely alleviates the illness?
Do you know that to date Avian Flu affects birds only?
Do you know who markets TAMIFLU?
*ROCHE LABORATORIES.*
Do you know who bought the patent for TAMIFLU from ROCHE LABORATORIES in 1996? *GILEAD SCIENCES INC.

*Do you know who was the then president of GILEAD SCIENCES INC. and remains a major shareholder?

*DONALD RUMSFELD, the present Secretary of Defence of the USA.

Do you know that the base of TAMIFLU is crushed aniseed?
Do you know who controls 90% of the world's production of this tree?
*ROCHE*.
Do you know that sales of TAMIFLU were over $254 million in 2004 and more than $1000 million in 2005?
Do you know how many more millions ROCHE can earn in the coming month if the business of fear continues?

So the summary of the story is as follows:

Bush's friends decide that the medicine TAMIFLU is the solution for a pandemic that has not yet occurred and that has caused a hundred deaths worldwide in 9 years.

This medicine doesn't so much as cure the common flu. In normal conditions the virus does not affect humans. Rumsfeld sells the patent for TAMIFLU to ROCHE for which they pay him a fortune. Roche acquires 90% of the global production of crushed aniseed, the base for the antivirus.
The governments of the entire world threaten a pandemic and then buy industrial quantities of the product from Roche. So we end up paying for medicine while Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush do the
business.

ARE WE CRAZY!!? OR ARE WE IDIOTS!!?

AT LEAST PASS THIS ON SO THAT IT CAN BE KNOWN!!!!!!!

I wish you all the very best, all-ways.
Love from the universe, Dr.Ruza.

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom, it has to come from instinctive experience.
PermalinkPermalink 06/01/06 @ 09:14
Comment from: Angela [Member] Email · http://ukraine.adoptionblogs.com/
Thanks Pascal... Honestly I think adoptive parents need to worry more about the water and Hep A, then H5N1.

But the US Embassy in Kyiv thought it was important enough to send out an warden email.

WHO is worried about the Indonesian cases because it looks like.. People caught virus from birds. Then people spread virus to other family members.

If this is really happening, it will be the first human-to-human transmission.

I don't think the H5N1 is going to destroy civilization like the bubonic plague did. But I am glad World Health Officials are keeping an eye on it.

And I have never understood why various folks thought that TAMIFLU would work on this illness.
PermalinkPermalink 06/01/06 @ 11:47
Comment from: Karianne [Member] Email · http://fertilityblogs.com
Angela, A friend of mine mentioned that Oprah had some info on this last week. Ever since I first heard of bird flu last year, I've been freaked out about it. Thanks for keeping us updated.
PermalinkPermalink 06/01/06 @ 12:14
Comment from: pchavaillaz [Member] Email
I hope you didn't take my comment badly Angela ?

It's just that H5N1 may have killed a few hundreds people in the last 2 years while AIDS is killing millions each year not even talking about lack of food in some countries.
I just think the whole hype about birdflu is too much and that the media are manipulating us. Why don't ROCHE and ILEAD SCIENCES INC. invest more on AIDS treatment and reduce prices for the tri-therapy medics they are already selling selling ?

Just my opinion anyway ;-)

Kind regards

Pascal
PermalinkPermalink 06/02/06 @ 01:41
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