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What Youthink! About Avian Flu
During a trip to the World Bank in July 2006, students from around the world took on the challenge of being health ministers for countries affected by avian flu. Their task: Raise awareness of disease prevention and response. Check out their creative messages and create your own!
For more information, read the story All About Avian Flu.
Taylor, Jennifer and Andrew |
"We are from Nigeria and our agriculture just dried up, so pour me some funding to fill up my cup; it is avian flu not the mad cow, so maybe we can cook these chickens and eat 'em too, the heat kills the virus so we might come through, solve this problem as quickly as possible, cause my brothers are dying and this is stoppable." |
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Renee, Chris, Yosef, Rushton and Daniel
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"We, the People of Laos, will continue to work towards the eradication of the avian flu. Since 2004, Laos has not experienced any human cases of avian flu; however we must rememeber: Don't eat uncooked bird stew, or you'll get fatal bird flu. There is no cure; you'll die for sure."
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Natalie, Deborah, Christopher and Nadia
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"Laos … small country, big efforts towards eliminating avian flu. Spread the knowledge, not the disease."
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Catie, Francesca, Gabrielle, Jason and Tatiana
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"Large population of China, the country has become and is currently more vulnerable to the threat of bird flu."
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Nick, Meg, John, Trevor, Melissa, Isabella, Sumaiya
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"Due to weak health services, Cambodia has experienced 100% fatality rate for those contracting Avian Flu. This makes Avian Flu awareness especially important."
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Cherre, Cristina, Yana, Talene, Stephanie and Marc
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"The 'hot' virus flying around now is the Avian Flu. Because of China's dense population, the close interactions with each other and intense climate many citizens are at a high risk of contracting this flu. Please spread awareness before it's too late."
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Jan, Jing, Jake, Bitsy, Albert and Ben
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"Iraq: Despite current internal issues, avian flu is a potentially serious threat that is worthy of national awareness. Due to the potential for further economic and social damage, avian flu is an issue that must be addressed."
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Justin, Vasant, Christina, Liz, Peter and Carl
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"The avian flu in Cambodia not only threatens 75% of the population relying on subsistence farming, but also poses an immediate danger to those susceptible to this possible pandemic. Seeing as though veterinary and health services are generally weak, the avian flu has already resulted in 6 fatal cases since 2005 in Cambodia."
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Sarah, Jessica, Angelica, Josh, Kathryn and Morgan
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"Many Indonesians depend on poultry, therefore there are many large concentrations of poultry creating a tighter risk for Avian Flu pandemics. There have been over 25 confirmed deaths from Avian Flu in Indonesia, so it's important for sanitary precautions to be taken."
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Andrew, Arlo, Gibran, Amino and Chikara
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"Turkey is the bridge between the Middle East and Europe, making it a critical breaking point in the spread of the avian flu. Because much of the economy is agricultural, checkpoints should be establish for farmers to report cases and receive the vaccine if available. Info should be readily available to the public."
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Sarah, Deirdre, Karen, Katie, Anne and Youngmin
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"Avian flu presents a great threat to Indonesia's stability, as the state is already under economic stress. The agricultural industry has been severely affected, as rural farmers are at especially high risk; 20% farm workers have already lost their jobs, and 22 out of 33 provinces have been severely affected. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture are currently working on the 9 Point Plan to combat this."
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Katrina, Katie, Hannah, Marc, Erin and Colin
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"Vietnam: An avian flu outbreak will hurt everyone regardless of religion or economic position. Avoid, and take precaution when, interacting with poultry."
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Iman, Allison, Melanie, Kaitlyn, Casey and Tracy
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"Iraq:
Violence and poverty breed unsanitary conditions which are grounds for avain flu.
Stop the violence.
Stop poverty.
Stop unsanitary conditions,
and prevent avian flu!"
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Sophia, Hannah, Mackenzie, Stepheni, Vikrum and Stephanie
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"Nigeria:
Farmers handling poultry daily.
40,000 birds affect a single farm.
Ability to mutate to human virus.
Does it affect us?
Yes."
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General comments about avian flu:
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"jstme," 14, Greece
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"Everybody must somehow protect themselves from Avian Flu. But I believe that the Media had terrified us. Here in Greece everybody is getting ready for the virus. It's a social propaganda. Vaccines for a simple flu have been sold within 5 months. People believe that a simple vaccine will save them. Don't you believe that someone is behind all this? All these medical companies can earn a lot from this and that's why they are trying to make us believe that we are in great danger."
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