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How to Help Out During a Flu Pandemic
By helping out, you stand a better chance of surviving if the avian flu turns into a human pandemic.
Steps
- Volunteer to help in the health service. They will be overstretched, and desperate for help. Most people will hide; it is never safe to do the same as everyone else in a crisis. Volunteers will be at great risk of catching the virus, so you would be first in line for any vaccination program.
- Find out the phone number of your local health authority so you can be one of the first to volunteer.
- Offer to do something useful, like staffing a phone-line, maintaining a database, fetching bed pans, liaising with families, maintaining websites, portering, or cleaning. Be prepared to do all sorts of unpleasant work. You will probably not have to do first line work with patients at first.
- Be willing to work in the bakeries, water supply industry, power stations, shops, and driving trucks. There will be plenty of work to do.
- Be prepared now; they expect that we will have 2 weeks to get ready after the first human-to-human transmission starts to happen; people will panic, and they are not nice when they do that...
Tips
- People deciding to hide won't have enough food because there will be a rush for food from the supermarkets, leaving vulnerable people short, and most people with not enough. Some of those hiding might also have problems with other things, depending on how many electricity, water, and phone staff decide to hide too.
- In recent studies, the Korean food "kimchi" has been found to fight the avian flu. Kimchi has bacteria that makes it a disease-fighting food. In fact, kimchi has been cited by Health Magazine as one of the world's top five "healthiest foods". During the SARS outbreak in East Asia, there were much lower reports of people affected in Korea. Many people believe that kimchi may have been the reason behind the lower SARS incidences in Korea.
Warnings
- Avian flu is expected to infect up to 50% of people in the UK, with up to 2.5% mortality. The current mortality is much higher, but they expect this will drop as the virus learns to spread human to human.
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