Emergency Home Preparation

The largest death rate will occur with our youth. The number of children that normally die in a 25 year period of time, may perish in three short months!

The number of children who would die from an unmitigated 1918-like pandemic
would be more than all the children who usually die
over 15-20 years.

Source: Venkayya, Homeland Security Council,
CDC Community Mitigation Stakeholders Meeting, Dec 06

Find out more in the following videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4opd-S1nG0

Dr. Gregory Poland, founder and head of The Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic discusses why children are at the most risk of infection and death during a pandemic in this excerpt from the BBC Horizon show "Five Things You Need to Know About Pandemic." For more information on pandemic preparedness
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Posted: 15 Apr 2007 11:01 pm
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