Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Bird flu, pandemic flu, tamiflu


A Lounger just recently returned from propping up the bar at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore comes bearing news of Singapore’s financial sector industry-wide exercise (IWE) which will run from Thursday, Aug 28 to Friday, Sep 11, 2008.

It will be run in three sessions and the scenario is an old favourite - pandemic flu.

If you want to know more here are slides used at a recent briefing and a link to the exercise portal:

www.calamityprevention.com/blog/BCM_Briefing_Session_IWE_08.pdf
www.iwe08.com.sg/c/portal/login

Tamiflu cocktails are now on sale at The Crisis Lounge.

2 comments:

JOLLY ROGER said...

HOW DO YOU DO…
BIRD FLU

But it sounds so cute

Getting a bit bored with the scaremongering and need to know the unbiased facts of this rampaging global killer, from China?



Symptoms

With all the chicken shops in your local area, pretty much everyone could have the flu. Arghhhhhh! Oh god, your mum loves chicken nuggets and you always buy that gauntly thin value chicken from the supermarket that looks like it’s been sick. Nooooooo! And last night you had a very runny nose.

Just so you’re not hastily arranging a lefty mob meeting. Human symptoms of H5N1 are; a fever, coughing, really sore throat, and achy muscles, the WHO not the who; the World Health Organisation said bird flu has “influenza like symptoms.” Oh yeah like you know what influenza even looks like? Might as well say bird flu symptoms are like contracting the plague in super glue, riding dodo roller skates. You could also get really awful stuff happen like; eye infections, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, and “other severe and life-threatening complications.” I think the last point translates to a gang of people intent on burning you alive before you give them a “contagious killer disease.”
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Elton said...

I got MS and bad Asthma, been given Tamiflu as prevention as we got influenza in the area. I have had 1 day of flu symptoms and my GP put me on Tamiflu just in case. I must say the 1st tablet I did take this afternoon completely wiped me out. However, side effects are no different to when I have to take Predisone (steroids), dizzy, burning hot, very very sleepy.