Pandemic Survival Blog

What's on your chopping block? What's lying on your grill? How soon will the deadly bird flu influenza morph into a strain that is transferred easily from birds to humans, and from humans to humans? Some scientists estimate this could be just a few mutations away. Think of how many birds that is for just a second that had to be slaughtered and burned to avoid a pandemic. Forty million. Imagine that many flying over your neighborhood. These are the birds that come from the filthiest confined animal feeding operations, that fuel the fast food industry, have no doubt. If avian flu outbreaks start in America in humans, there's about a 90% chance it started in the CAFOs before it reaches McDummies and Burger Fling.   Bird flu mostly a CAFO problem, not a backyard chicken problem Natural News reports the following regarding antibiotics in meat and compromised immune systems of animals exposed to horrific conditions in factories and more susceptibility to avian flu:...

  It is now being reported that some new strains of bird flu like the H7N9 are now taking a toll in China. Natural News reports that 60 people have been infected with the bird flu virus till date and 13 of them have died. But this whole issue is being avoided by the mainstream media as there is no medicine to highlight. The most horrible part is that scientists fear that this disease can soon spread by human to human contact, though at present all those who have been infected by the virus have direct links with poultry. According to Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Masato Tashiro from Influenza Virus Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases , the new bird flu virus can soon be able to adapt to human cells thus triggering a global pandemic.   The FDA, however, does not seem to be concerned about the impending danger. Back in 2004 it banned Ma Huang that formed an important part of the Minor Blue Green Dragon formu...