Showing posts with label Avian influenza. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

FEMA Readies 100,000 Person National Disaster Medical System Mobilization - Pandemic Response?


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FEMA 48 Hour Delivery Order: 100,000 "Doctor Scrubs"; 1000 (100 Person) Shelters; + Fuel, Showers, Bathrooms, and Hygine Equipment; Apparent Mobilization of the National Disaster Medical System
The situation appears to be a mobilization of the National Disaster Medical System
Summary:
Based on Federal Solicitations, FEMA is readying to deploy 100,000 medical personnel to 1000 shelter locations (100 medical personnel per location) on 48 hours notice. These shelter locations appear to be the housing quarters for the medical teams, as they are being stocked with atypical luxury, aka mobile showers, restrooms, hot food, medical clothing (scrubs), winter "sweat shirts and pants" etc.

Contractor comments/questions call it an "Armageddon scenario" and question the capabilities of their industries to support it. These Government solicitations have all the earmarks of massive logistical incompetence.

The threat being prepared for appears to be coming out of the Pacific Rim region, a likely scenario is the human spread of Avian Bird Flu (H7N9) out of China. We think less it is less likely (but we can't rule it out) that this is a Fukushima preparation because nuclear threats are invisible and usually deniable. Any such mobilization MUST BE less panic inducing than the threat which it seeks to quell, aka PANDEMIC.


PARTIAL Details:
100,000 "Doctor Scrubs" pants and shirts, 90% Adult Sizes (MUST DELIVER 50,000 with 48 hours notice)
100,000 "Sweat shirts and pants" 90% adult. (MUST DELIVER 50,000 with 48 hours notice)

1000 Shelters each holding 100 people, with mobile showers and restrooms supporting (2000 total showers).

And enough Fuel, Hot food delivery containers, sundries, protective equipment, hygine equipment and etc to supply.

6,000,000 autoclavable cotton blankets and so on and so forth, all must be available under "SURGE TEMPO" and typically in 48 hours notice.

8,100,000 liters of Bottled Drinking Water and 3,000,000 liters of Extended Shelf Life Drinking Water

Notable contractor comments:
Contractor A (Mobile showers and restrooms):
I think the Armageddon scenario is too large to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency with several responsible parties....we could address and service the 20 camps in California, the 5 in Oregon and the 5 in Washington"
Contractor B: (6,000,000 Pcs order for autoclabable blankets)
Question4. Would we be able to get a longer lead time for the initial order and then 30 days for the remainder of the contract? As the blankets will be manufactured in Pakistan? It will be hard to carry 100,000 Pcs in Inventory. We on a general basis stock no more than 25,000 - 30,000 Pcs in inventory locally in GA.
Answer4. No.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

A new strain of avian flu has mutated and is killing baby seals, The new virus could theoretically be a threat to human health, scientists say


August 1, 2012 by desertrose 

Bird flu has jumped to baby seals, scientists discover

By the CNN Wire Staff
The virus developed the ability to attack mammalian respiratory tracts, scientists learned.
The virus developed the ability to attack mammalian respiratory tracts, scientists learned.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • A new strain of avian flu has mutated and is killing baby seals, scientists say
  • More than 160 dead seals washed up on the New England coast last year
  • The new virus could theoretically be a threat to human health, scientists say
(CNN) — A new strain of avian flu that jumped from birds to mammals is responsible for the death of more than 160 seals off the New England coast last year, scientists announced Tuesday.
The virus could theoretically pose a threat to human health, they said.
Harbor seals — most of them babies less than 6 months old — began appearing with severe pneumonia and skin lesions in September of last year, the researchers said.
Over the next few months, at least 162 dead seals were recovered along the coast from Maine to Massachusetts, they said.
Mutant bird flu would be airborne, scientists say

Bird flu research published
2011: Concerns about bird flu strain
Testing pointed at a new strain of the H3N8 flu virus being called seal H3N8.
“When initial tests revealed an avian influenza virus, we asked the obvious question: How did this virus jump from birds to seals?” lead researcher Simon Anthony of Columbia University said.
The virus developed the ability to attack mammalian respiratory tracts, scientists learned.
It may also have developed enhanced virulence and transmission in mammals, they said, but they need to do more tests to be sure.
Avian flu has spread to humans before, most notably H1N1 and H5N1, so the new strain could pose a threat to public health, scientists warned.
“HIV/AIDS, SARS, West Nile, Nipah and influenza are all examples of emerging infectious diseases that originated in animals,” said W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University.
“Any outbreak of disease in domestic animals or wildlife, while an immediate threat to wildlife conservation, must also be considered potentially hazardous to humans,” he said.
The research is published in the journal mBio.
It was carried out by scientists from the Center for Infection & Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, New England Aquarium, the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, SeaWorld and EcoHealth Alliance.
CNN’s Miriam Falco contributed to this report.
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