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7laws
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Posted: September 22 2009 at 11:07pm |
Am I missing something? I went out to the grocery store today. Life as normal. Did not see a single sick person. I have not changed anything in my daily life really however my wife and i were introduced to the swine flu when it first came through. I have not seen much on the news. I have nurses in and out of my home 5 days a week and noone has said a thing about H1N1. I live in WA, maybe there is not much here yet. I am truly not worried about myself, just others. Just seems strange that I am not seeing it anywhere.
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Mary008
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Illness is said to peak in Oct. Sadly, some will be very ill. For the majority... see the
Australian's take on it....
The Australian Government's New Plan-
NEW PANDEMIC PHASE PROTECT
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On 17 June 2009, the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing,
Nicola Roxon,
after consultation with State and Territory governments,
announced
that Australia has developed a new response phase to manage the outbreak of
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 called
PROTECT.
On the advice of the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop,
and the Australian Health Protection Committee,
a new pandemic phase has been created
to guide the ongoing Australian response to the disease.
The new phase recognises that the infection with Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 is not as severe as originally envisaged when the Australian Health Management Plan for
Pandemic Influenza (AHMPPI) was written in 2008 and that this new disease is mild in
most cases, severe in some and moderate overall.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
PROTECT sits alongside CONTAIN and SUSTAIN phases with a greater focus on treating and caring for people
in whom the disease may be severe.
PROTECT is a measured, reasonable and proportionate health response
to the risk that the infection poses to the Australian community.
It is consistent with the message from the WHO when it lifted its Pandemic Alert to 6,
that countries will need to adjust their responses to accommodate the
knowledge we now have that this disease is moderate in most cases.
source .................
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7laws
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I saw on the news that it has not really reached here yet and that they are bracing for it. It seems my question was answered. |
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