"US deemed unready for health crisis"
"by Mike Stobbe, Associated Press | February 21, 2008
ATLANTA - In the first report of its kind, US health officials said the nation's cities and states made a strong effort to prepare for a flu pandemic, bioterrorism, or other emergency health crises, but big challenges remain....
It was the government's first assessment of the payoff from its investment of more than $5 billion since the terrorist attacks of 2001 to make the country better prepared for a variety of public health emergencies....
Always comes back to that damn inside job of 9/11, and once again the American public got short-changed in this exchange!!!!
$5 BILLION for WHAT?
All states are now doing year-round flu surveillance - an important measure if the bird flu virus in Asia mutates into a more dangerous form easily spread among people, unleashing a worldwide epidemic....
Why would it do that?
From what I've heard, that would be a HIGHLY-UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE?
Someone planning to release something?
Other public health specialists said federal funding is also a problem. CDC funding to state and local health departments for emergency preparedness dropped from $991 million in fiscal year 2006 to $897 million in fiscal 2007, according to the CDC report.
The agency did not release more recent figures. But some public health specialists pointed out budget request figures that show a steady drop, including a proposed $609 million for fiscal 2009...."
If the problem is such a SERIOUS THREAT, why the cut in funding?
Need the money for Iraq, right?
Yeah, just get sick and die, 'murkn!
I'd feel better if I hadn't looked into health matters; however, now I do feel sick.
Don't think I want to go to the hospital, either!!!!
"by Will Dunham, Reuters | February 21, 2008
WASHINGTON - Radioactive cesium chloride found in medical and research equipment can be used as an ingredient in a dirty bomb, and US leaders should try to curb its use, the National Research Council said yesterday....
Sigh!
The concern is that individuals or groups eager to detonate a dirty bomb in a US city could steal this cesium chloride and combine it with conventional explosives such as dynamite into a "dirty bomb" or radiological dispersal device....
The report proposed that the US government cease licensing new cesium chloride irradiators and discontinue their import and export....
Their EXPORT?
So "terrorists" can get their hands on this stuff?
And screw sterile instruments, 'murkn health-care consumer.
Just die already, 'murkns!
The number of cesium chloride irradiators appears to be on the rise in the United States....
WTF?!
Congress sought a report on what radioactive material could be used in a dirty bomb. The panel cited the cesium chloride in the irradiators as the leading concern.
Oh, Congress commissioned a "study" about "terrorist" threats, I see!
Booga, booga, boo, 'murkns!!!!!!!!!
You staying SCARED?!
A US Nuclear Regulatory Commission fact sheet on dirty bombs said most types would not release enough radiation to kill people or cause severe illness and that the conventional explosive itself would be more harmful to people than the radioactive material."
To be BLAMED on Americans, no doubt!!
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh," anyway?
BEWARE the CIA/Mossad FALSE-FLAG and its AmeriKan MSM script-readers, America!
