Bird Flu

If bird flu is as virulent as the flu I had this spring after a cruise, I fully expect millions to die in a pandemic. I have never been so sick in my life and being relatively healthy I was stunned by the virulence of the illness. That being so, my fear is that any resources that are diverted to the UN's World Health Organization ostensibly for bird flu is bound to be spent primarily for propaganda in order to generate even more money. It's the way things work at the UN as the AFP article demonstrates:

The organisation is also concerned about about the inequalities between the developed and underdeveloped countries: the former are better prepared, but it is the latter where the outbreak is most likely to occur.

Ninety percent of global influenza vaccine production is located in Europe and North America.

No pharmaceutical company is going to race to set up shop in Zimbabwe or South Africa or China which makes those drug companies not only greedy but racist because they aren't Marxists utopias.

On a less hysterical note, Reuters noted back in April that President Bush issued a directive to quarantine passengers suspected of having avian flu when they arrive in the U.S. Back then, WHO, apparently didn't need cash badly enough. Hence, their optimism.

Even so, the World Health Organization has said it had seen no evidence so far to suggest the bird flu virus was changing into a form that could be easily transmitted from one human to another.

Naturally Canada is calling for a summit of health leaders under the guidance of Canada, a country whose own corruption rivals that of the U.N.