Fw: Bird Flu Advice

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Powdered milk and canned tuna gonna save us!!!! OMG! This is just like the duck

tape and plastic. No difference. What a disaster. What a joke.

U.S. Govt. Bird Flu Advice: Stockpile Tuna, Milk

" When you go to the store and buy three cans of tuna fish, buy a fourth and put

it under the bed. "

Joe Vazquez

Reporting

(CBS 5) We may not know which of the deadly strains of the bird flu will

eventually hit the U.S.

But Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is offering a rather

specific warning about how to prepare for the disease. He urges Americans to buy

extra cans of tuna and powdered milk and stash them under the bed to get ready.

It's not the first thing you might think of to protect yourself against a

potential pandemic.

" Let me acknowledge that no one in the world is prepared for a pandemic, "

Leavitt said this weekend at a conference in Wyoming. " When you go to the store

and buy three cans of tuna fish, buy a fourth and put it under the bed. When you

go to the store to buy some milk, pick up a box of powdered milk. Put it under

the bed. When you do that for a period of four to six months, you are going to

have a couple of weeks of food, and that's what we're talking about. "

Leavitt, on a nationwide tour to raise awareness on the Avian flu, is raising

some eyebrows.

Some people that CBS 5 talked to said it reminded them of former Homeland

Security Secretary Tom Ridge saying duct tape and plastic wrap were supposed to

protect us from Anthrax.

Now, tuna and powdered milk are being offered as solutions for the Avian flu.

It's a good reminder we should always be prepared for an emergency, says Art

Reingold of the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health.

But in preparing for a bird flu pandemic, Reingold says he'd like to see the

federal government focus on preparing a vaccine, which is still years away and

getting more money to local authorities.

" There really is not a strong enough public health infrastructure either on

the laboratory side or the epidemiology side or the other aspects of public

health that will be important, " Reingold said. " If you have a vaccine to help

the pandemic, that's going to be way better than saving tuna and dried milk. "

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_073011212.html

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