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"The cataclysm produced by hurricane Katrina made people "find their feet" and march on Washington to protest the administration's policy of focusing on the oil war in Iraq to the neglect of preparedness for natural disasters and the plight of poor people at home. Will humanity wait for a natural or man-made catastrophe that kills hundreds of thousands or millions to come up with the will to change? It may then be too late. We must, and still can, head toward a timely shift in values, vision, and behaviors." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"GOVERNMENT ACTION NEEDED To solve some of these problems, Blum believes that both state and federal action is needed, particularly in the areas of liability reform, reimbursement for emergency department visits, disaster and terrorist preparedness and public health education and legislation. "People tend to count on and take for granted emergency care," Blum says. "But there are a lot of problems that are facing the people who deliver that care." Dr. Stephen Epstein, an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, agrees. "It's like musical chairs," he says. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Given the resilience of influenza virus, having alternative drugs is an important aspect of pandemic preparedness. Overkill The germs might well win. Already, we've seen the consequences of overuse of antibiotics and antimalarial drugs. Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, mefloquine and artemisinin combination therapy for the treatment of malaria, and antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus strains in hospitals are but a few cases of the germs winning. Indeed, drug resistance is becoming routine. The World Health Organization is concerned that resistance to drugs is reaching a crisis point." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Personal Hygiene: Your Best Chance Aside from moving to a desert island, personal hygiene and home preparedness may be the two most effective measures in avoiding and treating a super flu. Make it a habit to practice personal hygiene measures. Teach all family members and train your children in proper etiquette when sick. Let's start with the fundamentals. Wash your hands: Keeping viruses away by washing your hands frequently is one of the most important things you can do to avoid catching the flu. Keeping your hands clean also helps prevent passing viruses to someone else." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"The response took place simultaneously and widely, thanks to networked communication and preparedness. Indeed, technology can in many ways replicate the labor required for all of those billions of house calls, but much more quickly, cheaply, and safely. This is the power of networks. With more people using the Internet all the time, finding ways to track human travel patterns and the spread of epidemics has become easier. But it's still a challenge." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In addition, we have to address global warming if for no other reason than that national security preparedness is, as I'll show, part of our critical response to this issue. These strategies have to go beyond weapons and politics. In other words, there is more to winning this war on terror and to ensuring a peaceful future founded on strength than what we see on cable news being beamed in from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C. We can address the war on terrorism and global warming at the same time. We have to." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Quarantine Old-fashioned quarantine, enforced isolation imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease, could help slow down the rate of infection in some areas where compliance and preparedness are high, as in Western Europe. It many not work as well in Third World countries with high population density, limited medical supplies and infrastructure, and lack of political will. In the United States, where tens of millions of commuters and interstate trucking move goods and people across large distances daily, wide-scale infection could happen before it could be contained." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Some international agreements show how disaster preparedness is sup- posed to fit into this definition. Disaster preparedness was written into a sustainable-development code, adopted by world leaders at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This code, known as Agenda 21,9 is a book on its own. As with many parts of that code, the implementation of its disaster preparedness recommendations has been sketchy. For example, the U.S." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Thompson, then Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, unveiled the department's Pandemic Influenza Response and preparedness Plan, which outlines a coordinated national strategy to prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic. "This plan will serve as our road map on how we, as a nation and as a member of the global health community, respond to the next pandemic influenza outbreak, whenever that may be," he said at the time. Recently, the US has been stockpiling flu vaccines, yet these are not likely to be of much help." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"As part of a preparedness plan, cooperation between countries and agencies is already occurring, public health systems are being readied, and there is recognition that antiviral drugs are only part of the solution and pose a threat of increasing drug-resistant strains if improperly used. The United States is inadequately prepared. It's simply too large and too populated to supply everyone with vaccines and antiviral drugs. A good faith plan was initiated in the fall of 2005 to purchase enough antiviral medication to treat 20 million people. What about the remaining 270 million?" - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Well before he was appointed director of the Office of Public Health preparedness, Dr. Donald Henderson, an expert on infectious diseases, smallpox eradication, and now bioterrorism, wrote: "Of the weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological), the biological ones are the most greatly feared, but the country is least well prepared to deal with them."49 Of particular concern is the role of biotechnology in developing weapons of bioterrorism." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "In this view, national preparedness against food bioterrorism inappropriately diverts resources from seeking solutions to more compelling food safety problems. Such perspectives are grounded in studies of risk communication. In their 1982. analysis of risk and culture referred to in the introductory chapter, Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky said: "Risk aversion is a preoccupation with anticipating danger that leads to large-scale organization and centralization of power in order to mobilize massive resources against possible evils." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "I frmac j 1 rap j 1 interior 1 l_ public bldgs service nat'i sec emerg preparedness fed protective service mat, rsrch & state progs disaster recovery service info sec office | fed comp irc "j | vulnerability assess reclam bureau FIGURE 30. The byzantine organization of government units participating in the Office of Homeland Security. Agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (shown here as HHS) appear immediately above those of the Agriculture Department (USDA) on the left side of the diagram." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"In doing so, you will increase your child's preparedness and the likelihood of them implementing what they learn. Keep reminding them of the benefits they will derive from regularly nourishing their bodies with safe, wholesome foods. Be sure to teach them how to incorporate planned indulgences (more on this in the upcoming chapter) so they won't feel deprived. 7 ~ make healthy choices available .. .and keep junk foods out of the house." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Sources for "Emergency in the ER" were numerous federal, state, and local records, including investigations by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; data compiled by the Greater Cincinnati Health Council; reports by the General Accounting Office (GAO); congressional investigations such as "National Preparedness: Ambulance Diversions Impede Access to Emergency Rooms," by the Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, of the Committee on Governmental Reform, U.S." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"The FDA asked for additional authority: to issue recalls, and to require food companies to increase preparedness against sabotage and demonstrate the traceability of ingredients and products. The consumer advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) supported these requests, saying, "The success of such efforts would benefit from measures that CSPI has advocated for years—measures thwarted by the lobbying power of the food industry. If there has ever been a time to put safety before profits, it is now." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"This certainty has led to national and international influenza pandemic preparedness plans. Though spun in flat bureaucratic prose (the U.S. draft plan calls nasty vaccine side-effects "untoward and unexpected programmatic events"), these documents try to anticipate all the ways a pandemic could unroll and how modern medicine might outflank this microscopic enemy. Pandemic preparedness is provisional in nature, always subject to revision as more quirky virus behaviors come to light. The year 1918 offers one frame of reference for a modern pandemic." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"Indeed, the West Nile epidemic demonstrated glaring shortcomings in the preparedness of the public-health system to meet emerging infectious disease challenges. From the time the public-health system was founded—in New York City in the 1860s—public and political support has waxed and waned as new diseases rose and subsided. In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, New York had a strong monitoring program for mosquito-borne disease, but officials allowed it nearly to collapse, and it turned its attention to more pressing—or politically fashionable—threats." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "The CDC would also work with the new Department of Homeland Security, which will oversee a host of national agencies to coordinate the preparedness effort. Its Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency will give grants to companies and universities working on detection and border-security technologies, while the CDC and NIH will continue assessing and funding health-related research. Other initiatives may help as well, like the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense—the network of U.S." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "Sabin Vaccine Foundation, and now an adviser to the recently created Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency preparedness. For years Russell has campaigned for a government-university-industry consortium to shore up research and supply. Others say the government must take complete control because industry is pulling out. Kenneth Shine, president of the National Institute of Medicine, has revived the call for a national vaccine authority owned by the government and operated by commercial contractors to crank out vaccines." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"The Honolulu war games exercises and the Reston virus incident were pieces in a larger picture of sharply heightened concerns in some scientific circles about preparedness for confronting the emergences of new disease. Five major U.S. government studies addressed the issue between 1988 and 1994.14 In addition, several international agencies and organizations addressed various aspects of the emerging disease preparedness issue." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) "The military's preparedness for such medical emergencies would only worsen after the 1989 war games in Honolulu. U.S. military preparedness was put to the test in the Persian Gulf war. In that case several months of diplomatic saber rattling would precede actual combat, providing the Department of Defense with ample time to construct portable operating theaters, quarantine units, "space suits," respirators, and other gear to withstand Saddam Hussein's alleged biological weaponry." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.)

"Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington, and a member of Doctors for Disaster preparedness. He has written an extremely useful article which talks about this subject in depth. It is called "A User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule," and can be found in its entirety on several websites, including JigsawHealth.com. Aside from following this schedule, there are also alternative, natural methods to inoculate children. Nosodes are homeopathic remedies prepared from a pathological specimen. Research has shown that these can be effective alternatives." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"Before the 2001 spate of anthrax cases, the small amount of bioterrorism preparedness money that did trickle down to state health departments improved readiness across the board. "It's such a dry desert in public health," says Tara O'Toole, "that the capacity to buy some basic equipment, to stand up some rudimentary epidemiological programs, to hire a couple of more people, will make a difference." Because of the federal government's previous investment in preparedness, state labs now have more Biosafety Level 3 facilities for dangerous pathogens that can cause disease through inhalation." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"In the summer of 1916, during a preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, a bomb exploded, killing nine people; two local radicals, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, were arrested and would spend twenty years in prison. Shortly after that Senator James Wadsworth of New York suggested compulsory military training for all males to avert the danger that "these people of ours shall be divided into classes." Rather: "We must let our young men know that they owe some responsibility to this country." The supreme fulfillment of that responsibility was taking place in Europe." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"Disaster preparedness was written into a sustainable-development code, adopted by world leaders at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. This code, known as Agenda 21,9 is a book on its own. As with many parts of that code, the implementation of its disaster preparedness recommendations has been sketchy. For example, the U.S. National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) report Bridge to a Sustainable Future: National Environmental Technology Strategy,10 which was written years after Agenda 21, omits natural extremes such as earthquakes and hurricanes from its priority list." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "In the field of disaster preparedness, might it be possible to develop defenses to demonstrate how nanotechnology is a lifesaver for the general population? How might the industry transform hazardous chemical closed-loop systems into ones that are resilient against huge natural forces such as giant tsunamis? Climate Adaptation Researchers One of the most promising vehicles to combine adaptive technology with natural disaster preparedness may be climate research agencies. Billions of dollars are spent trying to forecast what climate changes will take place, and how." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "Who in the disaster preparedness divisions of multinational corporations is considering this? How might such disaster preparedness cooperation help mend the growing rift between environmental activists and nanotechnology researchers? What are the first technological applications to focus on? Natural-Resource Managers Most natural-resource decisions have long time horizons. Mines and forestry operations are often planned over a ten- to thirty-year span." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Aloe seems to act like a mild vaccination in the human body, by bringing a substance that appears to be a bacterial cell wall into the bloodsfream, which then whips the immune system into a state of red alert preparedness. Aloe may help the cancer patient in many ways. 0 Antibacterial & antifungal. Aloe vera applied topically to bum regions of animals was superior to the common antibacterial medication used, silver sulfadiazine.^' 0 Antiviral activity. Feline leukemia is a form of cancer confracted by cats and caused by a vims." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"At the beginning of 1917, a member of the National Civic Federation had complained that "neither workingmen nor farmers" were taking "any part or interest in the efforts of the security or defense leagues or other movements for national preparedness." The day after Congress declared war, the Socialist party met in emergency convention in St. Louis and called the declaration "a crime against the people of the United States." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

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