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Bird flu virus could evolve to pass from human to human via @Telegraph http://t.co/H5bJL7nc A bird flu pandemic may be a real threat after scientists discovered the virus could naturally evolve into a strain which would be able to pass from human to human. Link - Trackbacks

Was in Asia when the first pandemic hit... Talk about scary shit!!! http://t.co/0ZnLcgbP Five genetic tweaks made a deadly strain of bird flu that can infect humans spread more easily, according to a study that the U.S. government had first sought to censor on concerns it could be used by bioterrorists. Link - Trackbacks

#news #flu Bird flu pandemic in humans could happen any time - Reuters http://t.co/7KW0dAft LONDON (Reuters) - The world has yet to see a form of the deadly bird flu virus that could spread easily between people and cause a global outbreak - but that doesn't mean it won't happen, scientists said Link - Trackbacks

#news #flu Bird Flu Type Could Be Transmitted Through Air - Wall Street Journal http://t.co/MuIH48Xr The experiment shows how the virus that causes bird flu might trigger a human pandemic. Link - Trackbacks

Five genetic changes that could allow bird flu pandemic - BBC News: BBC NewsFive genetic changes that ... http://t.co/7R2nwFXb #SWINEFLU Scientists have identified five genetic changes to a strain of H5N1 bird flu which could 'trigger a human pandemic'. Publication of the research was delayed for months because of initial fears that it could be used by terrorists to create a bioweapon. Now scientists will be free to study how to combat a potential future pandemic. Link - Trackbacks

Guardian-Sci@ Study published showing how easily pandemic H5N1 bird flu could evolve: Scientists discovered it t... http://t.co/bOR7ASRD Scientists discovered it took just five genetic mutations for a potentially pandemic strain of H5N1 bird flu virus to emerge Link - Trackbacks

Big Pharma Exposed Created Fake Swine Flu Pandemic: http://t.co/nOaX8UCl via @youtube What a surprise swine turned out to be about as real as a flying pig named Baxter Link - Trackbacks

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それは運が悪すぎΣ（・□・；） ゴメンなさい！(>_<) RT @YAMATOpv: @pad_sexy 2回いって卵0個で若干低いというんですか？ レベルアップしたくてもこんなんでスタミナ25も持ってかれたらあげれません。

実はこれ割と真面目な話でな、精神医学では恋愛対象が同性だと同性愛者と規定されているが、相手がただ一人である場合はそうではないのだそうだ。つまり、好きな人が同性でも相手がただ一人で一途に思っているなら自由恋愛の範疇であり、ホモではないのだ。

Hi all

We've teamed up with @nhssm to explore whether the interactive nature of social media genuinely changes the way in which we exchange and share health messages and what role health professionals, health organisations, the media and public sector bodies can play in disseminating real-time information during a flu pandemic.

Here's the first blog about it:
http://nhssm.org.uk/the-bmj-and-nhssm-team-up-to-run-a-fluscenario/

The idea is that we will publish a blog everyday until the 13th June, with new snippets of information, as this hypothetical flu virus unfolds. In the process we are asking you some questions about how you would respond in terms social media communication. You can write your responses below the blog post.

Here's the first blog post:
http://nhssm.org.uk/fluscenario-part-1-intro-and-background-to-the-scenario/

Hi all,

As part of our project into the use of social media during public health crises and epidemics, we're asking everyone to participate in this very short survey to say how they would act on social media during the throes of an epidemic.

If you could take the time to let us know - we would really appreciate it!

Here's my blog exploring the matter: How would you use social media during a public health crisis?

Link to survey: http://bit.ly/LDeiO3 

There appears no effective & better way than the social media to communicate important healthcare related messages during epidemics.
We have had a good result in the past using the social media as an effective way to mass communication.
Psychologically people tend to follow mass or large scale media instructions.
It is beyond any doubts that the social media be involved in mass communication programs.
Also the social media, with help of the advanced communication methods can be able to achieve a good co-ordination between all the healthcare personalities.& help to share views of each other.
The limitations may sometimes be concerned with lack of technically detailed knowledge.

Social media is all about communication. I think only bloggers who are medical specialist and have high reputation  can be source of such information.

We will be assessing the way social media has been used in the past by health authorities, doctors, nurses and patients, to spread messages during epidemics.

 

Notably, we are interested in social media’s role to spread reliable information to at-risk groups, but also its potential to spread misinformation. We want to explore the following areas:

 

•  How has social media been used in previous epidemics to reach at-risk groups/spread health messages? (How have health authorities and doctors used it? What have patients used it for?)
• What’s the psychology behind social media? Does it compel users to help each other?
• Recommendations on how social media be used to spread relevant information more effectively
• How can social media be used to get different health professionals (doctors, nurses, etc) to communicate with each other and share infromation/advise patients?
• What are its limitations?

 

We will be posting on the next few months to gauge opinion and will be working with @nhssm who conduct a few Twitter chats, a blog, and scenario exercise, to explore the answers to some of these questions and find out how social media could be used by health professionals in the future to improve communication and disemminate reliable information. 

 

 

 

 

 

28 Total Votes
17 Votes - Yes
7 Votes - No
4 Votes - Don't know

What do you think?

I think social media is a good to way to promote ways to find information but not good ways to actually present information. I think social media in its core is actually about that. So many times people are simply posting links to curious pictures of whatever the latest justin bieber slag or funny quote instead of having the quote there on the site.
Furthermore, I think social media has so much risk of being abused that it is risky that information placed on social media couldn't likewise be abused.
Hence what I think social media should be used for is promotion.

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