ISU officials say the University and students would be under state and federal control in a bird flu pandemic. But ISU would rely on its own resources and other universities first. ISU Physical Plant Director Darrell Buffaloe says everybody on campus would have to help out in a viral emergency.
Idaho Health and Welfare predicts 400,000 people could be ill and 2,300 dead from a bird flu pandemic. And there may not be much the state can do about it. There is not a vaccine known for the bird flu pandemic yet. And even if a vaccine is made, the virus is continually changing which means a vaccine is not guaranteed to work.
Money is hard to come by for college students, and it may get worse. The U.S. House of Representatives is discussing a proposal to cut $14.3 billion from federal aid programs across the nation over the next five years. But it is not a done deal yet, and students can take action.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the avian flu could mutate into a human-to-human pandemic. Director of the World Health Organization Lee John-Wook says the world is due for another pandemic and the avian flu could be the virus to do it.
The avian flu that has appeared in Asia is genetically similar to the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed 50 million worldwide and 500,000 in the U.S. alone, says Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The genetic makeup of the 1918 pandemic remained unknown until just recently when researchers from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the CDC, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the U.
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