Episode 18: Links
Absolute Science Podcast, Episode 18
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Promo from TWiG from the Audio Pandemic Podcast
Adam's Interview with Dr. Mitch Katz, Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health
(1:15) Local preparations for the bird flu?
(1:32) What is the risk to humans?
(1:40) What does it mean that the virus has been around for many years in Asia, where people live in close quarters with chickens?
(2:22) What does it mean that it has spread so quickly and broadly through bird populations?
(2:50) What fuels the concern about this particular virus?
(3:02) What is the health director's role in preparing for a bird flu pandemic?
(3:35) How do preparations apply to other health risks?
(4:21) Isolation versus quarantine.
(5:35) How would isolation and quarantine be enforced?
(6:43) Past experiences with isolation and quarantine.
(7:18) Is there concern about the past cases of bird-to-human transmission?
(9:10) What can we expect from mutations in the bird flu virus?
(10:22) Why would it be bad if the flu oinfects humans and becomes less severe?
(11:32) What can people do in their homes to prepare? (Should you stockpile Tamiflu?)
(12:42) Could the use of Tamiflu lead to drug resistant bird flu strains?
(13:12) Have there been changes in the funding for avian flu preparedness...are there good things coming out of the greater awareness?
(13:46) Is funding being diverted away from other important health issues?
(15:04) How much of this is hype and how much is real?
(16:25) Which is more likely, a bird flu pandemic or an earthquake in San Francisco?
Promo from the Evolution 101 Podcast
News Section
British Journal of Medicine story on the unnecessary panic over the bird flu.
Bird Flu Exposes Insurers to Risks. (Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2006. Available to subscribers only)
U.N. expert warns bird flu moving fast (Dr. Roger Glass on the inevitability of a human flu pandemic.)
A Scottish swan is infected with the H5N1 flu virus.
Home Office prepares for 'mass burials' if Avian flu mutates
Bird Flu Vaccine: Long Way To Go
Even Without A Vaccine, Existing Drugs Show Promise in Treating Bird Flu (Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2006. Available to subscribers only)
Subscribe at iTunes or Odeo
Click play to listen now
Promo from TWiG from the Audio Pandemic Podcast
Adam's Interview with Dr. Mitch Katz, Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health
(1:15) Local preparations for the bird flu?
(1:32) What is the risk to humans?
(1:40) What does it mean that the virus has been around for many years in Asia, where people live in close quarters with chickens?
(2:22) What does it mean that it has spread so quickly and broadly through bird populations?
(2:50) What fuels the concern about this particular virus?
(3:02) What is the health director's role in preparing for a bird flu pandemic?
(3:35) How do preparations apply to other health risks?
(4:21) Isolation versus quarantine.
(5:35) How would isolation and quarantine be enforced?
(6:43) Past experiences with isolation and quarantine.
(7:18) Is there concern about the past cases of bird-to-human transmission?
(9:10) What can we expect from mutations in the bird flu virus?
(10:22) Why would it be bad if the flu oinfects humans and becomes less severe?
(11:32) What can people do in their homes to prepare? (Should you stockpile Tamiflu?)
(12:42) Could the use of Tamiflu lead to drug resistant bird flu strains?
(13:12) Have there been changes in the funding for avian flu preparedness...are there good things coming out of the greater awareness?
(13:46) Is funding being diverted away from other important health issues?
(15:04) How much of this is hype and how much is real?
(16:25) Which is more likely, a bird flu pandemic or an earthquake in San Francisco?
Promo from the Evolution 101 Podcast
News Section
British Journal of Medicine story on the unnecessary panic over the bird flu.
Bird Flu Exposes Insurers to Risks. (Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2006. Available to subscribers only)
U.N. expert warns bird flu moving fast (Dr. Roger Glass on the inevitability of a human flu pandemic.)
A Scottish swan is infected with the H5N1 flu virus.
Home Office prepares for 'mass burials' if Avian flu mutates
Bird Flu Vaccine: Long Way To Go
Even Without A Vaccine, Existing Drugs Show Promise in Treating Bird Flu (Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2006. Available to subscribers only)
Subscribe at iTunes or Odeo
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