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Avian flu has fallen largely under the radar since it was the centre of widespread attention in 2005, but now it has emerged in a turkey farm in southern B.C. Examiners aren't too worried since they say that this is not really a deadly strain. However, it does raise some questions-



Some thoughts...
Personally, I find that the avian flu prescence in North America is a reminder of our need as a global player to take part and maintain our medical and preventetive standards to preserve lives around the world, and that even three years after it was seen as a major cause for concern it's stiil an extremely potent threat. If not this specific disease, then others like it. It could be a global pandemic because it's impossible to control birds and flight patterns...while it does seem to emerge mostly in domestic and non-flying birds, however, I do think it's possible for us to prevent teh disease's spread by imposing international inspection laws on all poultry.
I do not believe our international health systems are ready, as most are largely concerned with their own country, which, while effective, will ignore a good portion of the world that does not have teh same finances or medical advances to maintain their peoples' health. The result will be teh disease existing in certain parts of the world and continually spreading to otehr parts, overloading the stabler systems.
On the flipside, a global pandemic would force international leaders and palyers to consider more thoroughly the prescence of global trade, economy, prescence, and medical relations. Now, more than ever, when telecommunications and transportation bring the world closer together, we must learn to work together internationally in order to assure our own survival.

im shitting myself scared.

Ok sure! I was just trying to suggest some things to talk about. I can erase those ^_~.

EDIT: done! I just put in my opinion.

To be fair, I'm not trying to copy and paste every bit of Canadian news...I realized after the university strike and coalition government thread that there are a lot of canadians on GW and our news and issues don't always get addressed in most mainstream international communities, so I thought I'd take an initiative to try to talk about things which are important to Canadians but also important to others internationally. ^_^ I see your point in concern, though!

(Also forgive my style of making topics, but it's how I'm used to doing it at debating clubs, I will try others).