Comment: Pandemic means that it's everywhere and a whole lot of people have it. If/when the avian flu mutates to be contagious from human to human contact, it will hit so hard and so fast that there will be nothing to do except hope you live through it. So it's best to prepare well in advance by having the right herbs and supplements on hand to help your body fight it off . . . and survive. The United States still has no licensed vaccine to prevent avian flu and has nowhere near enough drugs on hand to treat the sick if there is an epidemic, experts told Congress on Thursday.
Hospitals have too little capacity to deal with the huge numbers of people who would become sick and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department does not even have a plan for dealing with an epidemic, the experts said.
'Although many levels of government are paying increased attention to the problem, the United States remains woefully unprepared for an influenza pandemic that could kill millions of Americans,' said Dr. Andrew Pavia, chairman of the Infectious Disease Society of America's Pandemic Influenza Task Force.
U.S. still unprepared against new flu, experts say
