Hi.
On June 13, Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is convening a leadership forum on pandemic preparedness, which brings together highly influential leaders from the business, faith, civic and health care sectors to discuss how best to help Americans become more prepared for a possible influenza pandemic. The Department is hosting this five-week blog summit to expand this conversation as part of an ongoing effort by the Department to help Americans become more prepared.

Everyone is encouraged to become involved and educated:
Here is the schedule:
Week 1: The Need to Prepare
Why is it critical for each of us to prepare for the threat of pandemic influenza?
Week 2: My Role as a Leader
What are my constituents concerns? How can I play an important role in communicating the need to prepare?
Week 3: Getting the Job Done
What do I need to succeed in communicating the importance of preparing for a pandemic?
Leadership Forum
Live blogging from the Leadership Forum
Week 4: Forum Results
Report out from the Leadership Forum
Week 5: Making it Happen
What steps do we need to take to successfully move forward?

please visit:

http://blog.pandemicflu.gov/

and remember prepare not panic.. j

Don’t panic you say?

eeesh!

Most citizens are not taking this seriously.  I know because every single time I bring up the subject it’s suggested that perhaps it’s a bit too conspiracy theorist to be believed.  I do not believe 9/11 was perpetrated by our government, I believe man really walked on the moon, I don’t think the government has Osama bin Laden tucked away somewhere in the Bronx.  I am not a conspiracy theorist.  But this is coming.  In 1997 I read an article where the geneticist indicated it would take about 10 years or so for this virus to mutate to human to human form.  It is now 2007.  If this geneticist was correct, we’re on borrowed time. 

Thanks for the link.  It confirmed quite a bit for me.