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The bathroom contains many hidden infection hazards. Even the toilet which removes our wastes can spread infection if you don't know one important fact.

Some people let fear and hatred overcome their ability to think logically, and bird flu can bring out the worst in people.

In the last year or so, have you experienced one or more bad colds, or possibly had a bout with the flu? Numerous people, some even in our own local area, have actually been laid up with pneumonia! In the last three decades there have been several viral and bacterial epidemics?and this at a time when we should have been able to expect the eradication of many infectious diseases. Why is this? Why does it seem that in recent years, in spite of all the wonderful medic

If you must come into contact with people at all during a bird flu pandemic, hand washing is one of the best ways you can prevent the virus from infecting you. But you must wash your hands thoroughly and often.

Have your shopping list ready so that when a bird flu pandemic comes, you can go to the store and buy what you and your family need to protect them.

A bird flu pandemic will be even more difficult to deal with for the mentally retarded and those with psychiatric disorders.

Children are especially at risk for catching bird flu, and so you must take special precautions to protect them during an influenza pandemic.

The elderly are especially at risk for catching bird flu, and so you must take special precautions to protect them during an influenza pandemic.

The Bush administration released the Bird Flu response plan called the ?Pandemic Influenza? which outlines the strategies that the government, businesses and citizens were to take incase a deadly strain reached the shores of USA.

Under current technology the H5N1 influenza virus mutates faster than we can create vaccines. There aren't enough eggs in the world to produce the amounts of vaccine that the world's population will demand.

You need to plan for the legal consequences just as you must plan for the legal consequences of any catastrophe. Sometimes, somewhere, they will happen. Don't survive the pandemic only to fall victim to a lawsuit.

Sooner or later, some hunter somewhere is going to shoot a bird flu infected duck. The risk is small -- but it will happen. If you're careful, the duck will be the only one to die.

People with compromised immune systems are even more at risk during a bird flu pandemic than everybody else. They must avoid the bird flu virus.

Currently there're 3 types of universal influenza vaccines under development: M2, NP and peptides.

Our problems don't happen one at a time, and a bird flu pandemic will increase the problems posed by poor control of our southern border. It could increase the risk of ethnic violence and deaths from counterfeit drug smuggling.

Terrorism could be one of the additional problems of a pandemic of contagious bird flu. We must guard against fanatics who would take advantage of disorganization and depleted resources in law enforcement and security to further damage the world.

Your kitchen is the favorite place in your home for germs to multiply and infect you. Chances are, you don't keep it nearly as clean and germ-free as you think.

People with jobs requiring them to come into physical contact with many people are most at risk of exposure to bird flu during a contagious pandemic.

Indonesian bird flu data could provide the answer to how bird flu is being spread around the world - through migratory birds of chicken/bird trafficking.

Right now, people exposed to infected chickens are most at risk. If bird flu becomes highly contagious, we're all at risk, but people with weak immune systems are most at risk.