Popular Media Taking Note of Potential for Avian Flu Pandemic

With Thursday's episode of ABC's popular news show "Primetime Report," we are finally beginning to see mainstream media coverage of the growing threat of the avian flu pandemic. And, as strange as it may seem to say, it was heartening. Not heartening that we are facing a potential humanitarian and economic disaster, but that both the head of the World Health Organization and U.S. President Bush warned of the danger -- meaning that governments and public policy makers may finally do something about it and begin taking the needed steps to lessen the effects of the coming danger. After all, our worst enemy is an uninformed public, and, as a result, a complacent world.

If you want to read a little bit more about what ABC News had to say, I invite you to check out this link: Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic?

– Norma Owen, President, Avadon (Flu Preparedness Team)