Where Can You Get Reliable Pandemic Flu Information?

Getting reliable pandemic flu information is a little like trying to find an honest used car salesman, but it can be done. Ultimately, the person who decides what is the best pandemic flu information is yourself. But you need to give your common sense some reign over any fear or speculation you may have. You need to go to news services, medical services and the CDC pandemic flu web sites in order to get the latest and least biased pandemic flu information.

Places To Ignore

You can make your life a lot easier by ignoring some sources of pandemic flu information that claim to know what they are talking about and authoritative. They are usually just scare tactics to sell papers or to grab public funds. You also want to ignore any pandemic flu information from any source that has gained a lot of money in the past three years from Bush's 2005 bird flu plan.

In short, you should ignore pandemic flu information from:

Politicians
Sensational press, like tabloids
Fictional stories or movies
Pharmaceutical companies
Your drinking buddy

Center For Disease Control And Prevention

The CDC has a through and attractive website devoted to pandemic flu information with frequent updates and chronicles of past pandemics. The website is http://www.pandemicflu.gov. Although a government agency which interacts with politicians, dicey journalists and pharmaceutical companies, the CDC is a sober agency that sends out reliable information in a calm manner.

Another of the best reasons to go to the website is to find out about the Great Pandemic of 1918. This killed more people than World War I. However, there weren't any of the medicines, highway infrastructure or knowledge of how flu works in 1918. There also weren't the strict hygiene practices that happen in hospitals today. Just looking into this branch of pandemic flu information should help you realize that the possibility of another pandemic isn't so scary after all.

And take a look at the today's headlines. If there isn't anything concrete about recent outbreaks that may signal a pandemic, then you know right away that a pandemic isn't going to happen in your near future … although you may want to check your horoscope to be doubly sure.

Besides, the odds are that you have survived many outbreaks of influenza that spread around the world. Even if no one died, these can be called pandemics. If you were alive during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, most of the world was gripped with the Nagano flu. And we all survived. We lost a lot of weight through dehydration, but we survived.