Sensationalist headline - but quite likely to happen in the event of an Asian bird flu pandemic. The contingency plan of the Australian Government involves banning mass gatherings, not a bad idea given the situation. The World Health Organisation (WHO) currently rates the probability of a worldwide bird flu pandemic at 10%.
It doesn’t matter how much medical advancement we make in treating different diseases, disease itself is unbeatable. It’s a fact of life in the material world.
What’s our contingency plan for that situation? We can do harinam, and we’ll keep personal cultivation going. We can use the time for more strategic planning, concentration (study), and resource generation. If it happens.
EXPERTS have warned a bird flu outbreak could hit Australia within a year, causing tens of thousands of deaths and, some say, a breakdown in social order.
As the US continues to counts the cost of Hurricane Katrina, Australian scientists fear a more lethal storm is brewing in the poultry farms and duck ponds of Asia, one that could spread worldwide and dwarf the fear, panic, social disruption and economic damage in New Orleans.
No, that could never happen… not here… could it?
