tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post3654963031173305335..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: I am a camera - avian flu H5N1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-49195456735101419522007-02-05T08:40:00.000+00:002007-02-05T08:40:00.000+00:00Some big names agree with those Holton demonstrato...Some big names agree with those Holton demonstrators in today's Guardian letters:<br /><br /><i><b>Global poor most at risk from bird flu</b><br /><br />Monday February 5, 2007<br /><br />As the recent outbreaks in Suffolk, Nigeria, China and Egypt make clear, today humanity faces a massive global threat from avian influenza (Birdflu alert as 1,000 turkeys found dead in Suffolk, February 3). Indeed, leading researchers believe a human pandemic is not only inevitable but overdue. In December 2006, the Lancet medical journal estimated that a global H5N1 influenza pandemic could kill over 60 million people - 96% of them in the global south.<br />In 1918, an influenza virus killed more people in 24 weeks than Aids has killed in 24 years. Overwhelmingly, these deaths took place in the global south. People with Aids will be particularly vulnerable to a new influenza pandemic, along with those affected by malnutrition and war.<br /><br />The world needs: 1) an end to corporate patents that restrict access to critical medicines; 2) urgent funding by the rich world to boost health and surveillance systems in countries most at risk in Asia and Africa; and 3) the elimination of large-scale intensive livestock farming, which is accelerating the development of new pandemic viruses.<br /><br />Corporate greed and western self-interest are blocking these urgently needed actions. We can and must take action now.<br /><br />Noam Chomsky, author Hegemony or Survival<br />Naomi Klein, author No Logo<br />Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South<br />Michael Greger, author Bird Flu: A virus of our own hatching<br />Mike Davis, author The Global Threat of Avian Flu<br />Caroline Lucas, Green MEP<br />John Pilger, author Distant Voices<br />Gabriel Carlyle, Pandemic Action<br />Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence<br />Michael Albert, ZNet<br />Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace prize winner<br />Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary general</i><br /><br />Source http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329705702-103683,00.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-57586313633689671782007-02-04T22:02:00.000+00:002007-02-04T22:02:00.000+00:00The ever topical Renewable Music has a link to thi...The ever topical <i>Renewable Music</i> has <a href="http://renewablemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/topical-music.html">a link to this article</a> with details of a recent bird related prose score by the composer Bhisma Xenotechnites.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com