ASIAN BIRD FLU
Asian Bird Flu is frightening but preventable until it mutates. The USA and Europe are unlikely to have cases for a while but travelers to Thailand could bring it home any time. We shouldn’t be complacent because Americans and Canadians travel to Bangkok all the time usually for sex despite the danger of HIV which is very high there. Americans and Canadians come home with sexually transmitted diseases at the rate of about 40% or four guys in ten. They bring home Asian Gonorrhea, syphilis, or venereal warts and pass them along to their girl friends or wives. The Asian variety of these infections are exceptionally hard to treat. I examine each of one of these guys for possible flu.
In Thailand the same guys also go to cock fights where chicken blood and saliva fly all over the place since these fights are generally held in small crowded rooms. I guess I’d dump the guy who came home to me from his sex vacation. On the other hand this wouldn’t be my kind of guy anyway. It’s common for a cock handler to pick up his bird and suck the blood and mucus from his beak to open his nostrils. A cock handle was the first KNOWN death from Bird Flu in Bangkok.
People get three kinds of flu A, B, C.. A is cause of most deaths from flu though most of these deaths are due to a secondary Bacterial pneumonia because the infected lung can’t defend itself and patient seeks help to late. Bird flu is a type A strain and we are only beginning to have a vaccine for it. The USA has bought two million doses of a new not well tested vaccine. It’s hoped that if a real emergency develops, this vaccine will work.
In 1918-1919 the “Spanish Flu killed between 20 and 5o million people world wide. No one is sure because they couldn’t count deaths in many parts of Asia and Africa. Many Survivors of that flu developed Parkinson’s disease from previously unidentified lesions in the brain.
1957-1958 an Asian Flu killed 70,000 Americans.
1967-69 Hong Kong Flu killed 34,000.
So how do we protect ourselves?
1. Eat a well balanced low fat diet with plenty of fruit and veggies and drink plenty of water.
2. Wash hands often. Shake hands with people as infrequently as possible and wash after wards. This is where the Asian greeting where people don’t touch is good.
3. If you are sick don’t go to work or school.
4. Get plenty of rest.
5, Stay out of crowds.
6. Limit your alcohol or recreational drug use. The drug that makes you happy makes the white blood cells that fight infection take the week off. They just lay back and enjoy then selves while you develop the infection they might have prevented,
7. Your health care provider nay decide you need an antiviral prescription medication.
I pray you stay well!!!!!
Asian Bird Flu is frightening but preventable until it mutates. The USA and Europe are unlikely to have cases for a while but travelers to Thailand could bring it home any time. We shouldn’t be complacent because Americans and Canadians travel to Bangkok all the time usually for sex despite the danger of HIV which is very high there. Americans and Canadians come home with sexually transmitted diseases at the rate of about 40% or four guys in ten. They bring home Asian Gonorrhea, syphilis, or venereal warts and pass them along to their girl friends or wives. The Asian variety of these infections are exceptionally hard to treat. I examine each of one of these guys for possible flu.
In Thailand the same guys also go to cock fights where chicken blood and saliva fly all over the place since these fights are generally held in small crowded rooms. I guess I’d dump the guy who came home to me from his sex vacation. On the other hand this wouldn’t be my kind of guy anyway. It’s common for a cock handler to pick up his bird and suck the blood and mucus from his beak to open his nostrils. A cock handle was the first KNOWN death from Bird Flu in Bangkok.
People get three kinds of flu A, B, C.. A is cause of most deaths from flu though most of these deaths are due to a secondary Bacterial pneumonia because the infected lung can’t defend itself and patient seeks help to late. Bird flu is a type A strain and we are only beginning to have a vaccine for it. The USA has bought two million doses of a new not well tested vaccine. It’s hoped that if a real emergency develops, this vaccine will work.
In 1918-1919 the “Spanish Flu killed between 20 and 5o million people world wide. No one is sure because they couldn’t count deaths in many parts of Asia and Africa. Many Survivors of that flu developed Parkinson’s disease from previously unidentified lesions in the brain.
1957-1958 an Asian Flu killed 70,000 Americans.
1967-69 Hong Kong Flu killed 34,000.
So how do we protect ourselves?
1. Eat a well balanced low fat diet with plenty of fruit and veggies and drink plenty of water.
2. Wash hands often. Shake hands with people as infrequently as possible and wash after wards. This is where the Asian greeting where people don’t touch is good.
3. If you are sick don’t go to work or school.
4. Get plenty of rest.
5, Stay out of crowds.
6. Limit your alcohol or recreational drug use. The drug that makes you happy makes the white blood cells that fight infection take the week off. They just lay back and enjoy then selves while you develop the infection they might have prevented,
7. Your health care provider nay decide you need an antiviral prescription medication.
I pray you stay well!!!!!