Timely Book On Bird Flu

Lifelongactivist writes, "A new free book about bird flu has been published by Michael Greger, M.D., the US Humane Society's director of public health and animal agriculture. Bird Flu: a Virus of Our Own Hatching (the site contains the entire book text) tells why modern industrialized agricultural methods, including factory farming, antibiotics misuse, and the use of animal refuse as a food source (!) for chickens and other livestock, have led to a staggering increase in the number of 'zoonotic' diseases that can leap from animals to people, and make a bird flu pandemic likely. The book discusses in practical terms what you can do to prevent infection and what to do if you do catch the disease. The book is especially timely given yesterday's news that a new, vaccine-resistant variant of H5N1 has been detected in China."
Update: 10/31 19:44 GMT by KD : Corrected to read "vaccine-resistant."

Comments

antibiotics resistant?

[Albort]

As I recall, viruses aren't treated with antibiotics. The strain mentioned in the last link is resistant to the immune response generated by current vaccines. It may seem like a small distinction, but people demanding antibiotic treatment courses from their doctors regardless of the actual infecting agent is one of the reasons we have such a rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Since antiboitics would never work on a virus...

[kary4th]

I guess this isn't really news.

All Flu strains are resitant to antibiotics!

[tscheez]

Being that antibiotics are for bacterial infections and not viruses