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    The Pandemic Flu Survival Guide
    The Pandemic Flu Survival Guide
    The Pandemic Flu Survival Guide
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    The Pandemic Flu Survival Guide

    By Vincent Walsh Ph.D.

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    WHY TAKE A CHANCE on your survival or that of your family? There is nothing inevitable about dying during a viral (or flu) pandemic. This guide is for all those people out there who want the knowledge, facts, advice and guidance to help them survive when the virus spreads around the world with devastating consequences in terms of social and economic upheaval. You will be offered practical, down-to-earth advice and information written in an easy to read style. With sections on building up a food and water store, 24 x 7 home living, keeping fit and healthy and the use of antiviral herbs and remedies, plus much more, you will have all the information you need to start your preparations and face the future with confidence. FOR PEACE OF MIND - AND JUST IN CASE... A PURCHASE YOU WILL NOT REGRET.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateDec 29, 2011
    ISBN9781471033025
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      The Pandemic Flu Survival Guide - Vincent Walsh Ph.D.

      The Pandemic Flu Survival Guide

      THE PANDEMIC FLU SURVIVAL GUIDE

      By

      Vincent Walsh Ph.D.

      Published by Rossendale Books

      11 Mowgrain View

      Bacup

      Rossendale

      Lancashire

      OL13 8EJ

      England

      http://www.rossendalebooks.co.uk

      Copyright Vincent Walsh 2012

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      The best way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is to encourage a person to think for themselves, instead of endeavouring to instil ready-made opinions into their head

      Leslie Stephen

      Disclaimer

      Life offers no guarantees and neither does this manual. There is no claim here to save life – yours or family and friends. Read and study these pages and make up your own mind as to whether you think the advice and suggestions given here will help you when a human-to-human flu pandemic sweeps across the world.

      Claimer

      What this manual does claim, however, is that by following the advice and suggestions given here:

      –   You can provide yourself, your family and friends with a greater chance of survival

      –   You will not contribute to panic buying

      –   You will not freely spread the flu virus

      –   Your actions will relieve the burdens on your local health service providers

      Foreword

      Part One - Understanding

      First Steps: Understand The Scenario

      The Government’s Problem Is Your Opportunity

      The Reluctant Athlete

      When Do I Need To Start?

      An Outline Plan Of Action

      Part Two – Before It Starts

      Planning & Preparation - Building Up A Food & Water Store

      Planning & Preparation - Some Vital Purchases

      Planning & Preparation - Home Inputs & Outputs

      Planning & Preparation – Managing Money & Finances

      Planning & Preparation –24 x 7 Home Living

      Planning & Preparation – Keeping In Touch

      Planning & Preparation – Planning For Mealtimes

      Planning & Preparation – Keeping Fit & Healthy

      Planning & Preparation – Make Your Own Face Masks

      Planning & Preparation – Antiviral Herbs & Remedies

      Part Three – Once It Starts

      Killing The Virus With Care

      Part Four –  The Beginning of The End

      Lowering The Drawbridge

      Part Five  –  Reference Articles

      Questions & Answers About Pandemic and Bird Flu

      World Health Organisation FAQs

      Reference Articles  –   Ten Things You Need To Know About Pandemic Influenza

      Reference Articles - Clean Hands The Way To Stop Flu

      Reference Articles –  Memories of a Vietnamese Survivor

      Reference Articles – The 'Bird Flu' That Killed 40 Million

      Reference Articles –  The Global Impact of Bird Flu

      Reference Articles –  One Government's Plans

      Reference Articles –  Alarm At Human Bird Flu Cluster

      Foreword

      As I look out through my study windows, from the desk at which I am writing these words, I can see the northern moorlands of England framed against a dull wintry sky. Crows from a nearby ancient rookery are just beginning their daily forays for food into the surrounding woods and fields. Close by, in the hedgerow, flocks of sparrows are noisily fluttering their way along its course in search of any leftover summer seeds or berries. Two doves are preening themselves on the stone-slabbed roof of an old farmhouse, all the while keeping a careful eye on the black cat which is only yards away from them but which is more concerned, for now, with washing itself.

      As I put my pen down for a moment I try to remember when it was exactly that I first became aware of this threat to our lives and societies. I think it was around two years ago, long before it became the regular news item which it has now become. Of course I’d known for years about the last global pandemic to claim millions of lives around the world: the 1918 to 1919 outbreak which was to become known as the ‘Spanish Flu’. It's been estimated that more people were killed by that particular invisible virus than all those who died on the battlefields of Europe and Asia during ‘The Great War’ as it was called. Whenever it was that this new threat came into my mind, since then I have been keeping abreast of news on this topic from many sources: websites, newspapers, television programs and magazine articles.

      Only recently has it become clear that one transmission mechanism for moving the virus around has been the flights of wild birds along their migratory paths across the seas and continents of the world. Domestic poultry, where birds are unnaturally squeezed together into enclosed spaces, also provide a fertile breeding ground for viruses, allowing them to mutate at rapid rates as they become established in a flock. Another transmission mechanism for the virus is considered to be the large-scale movements of poultry products across national boundaries – eggs, meat and live birds. There seems to be a devastating interplay between the captive birds of the world and the free wild birds, one in which the bird flu virus is now moving unhindered.

      However it gets there, once bird flu reaches a country, the local wild bird populations can then act as a reservoir for the virus and thereby pose a constant threat to the captive birds – with the wild birds, in their turn, threatened by virus outbreaks in the domestic flocks.

      Flu viruses have always existed amongst wild birds but the mutation represented by the H5N1 strain is much more dangerous to them. Up to now, H5N1 has killed in at least 11 of the 27 avian orders including gulls, storks, pigeons, eagles, cranes, pelicans, parrots and owls. Swans and ducks seem to be particularly susceptible. We should remember that it has also infected other animals including tigers, leopards, civets, domestic cats (feeding on contaminated meat), ferrets and mice in laboratory studies. In early 2006 the bird flu spread swiftly across the continent of

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