In 2002 it was SARS! cost me, and many others our jobs (with hindsight it wasnt a bad thing) the SARS virus proved to be a media beatup with less than 100 total deaths !! compared to 1000's that die every day from the common cold and flu.
Now we have Avian Bird flu. total deaths so far - 60. yet all i read in the papers is global doom the end is neigh type crap..
oh, and this! Dixon must be rubbing his hands together with this one!!
Bird flu pandemic would 'wipe out' international travel
By Jewel Topsfield
October 31, 2005 - 12:48AM
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Disaster experts from the Asia-Pacific region will meet in Brisbane today to discuss how to cope with a global outbreak of deadly bird flu, amid warnings that international travel would be virtually wiped out in a pandemic.
Health Minister Tony Abbott yesterday said overseas travel would almost cease for a "significant period" if avian flu broke out in the region.
"Regardless of what border controls countries might put on, there will be very few people who will be wanting to travel," Mr Abbott told Channel Ten.
He said Australia would do all it could to bring home Australians abroad during a pandemic. He would not be drawn on whether Australia would accept so-called flu refugees — a new class of migrant escaping a flu pandemic in their own countries.
Mr Abbott last week said Australia would consider closing its borders in a pandemic.........................
now who is up for an EBA in QF ??