Our Mission
How dangerous is the bird flu?
Experts are divided. Some are predicting a world wide pandemic that could take as many as a billion lives.
Others say the whole thing is blown out of proportion, citing the fact that it's a disease that kills birds, not people.
So far there have been only a few dozen people killed by the H5N1 virus. You stand a greater chance of being killed by lightning. In this respect, the naysayers are correct.
But the flu virus never stands still. It is constantly changing. It has the potential to re-assort and be capable of being passed from human to human. If and when this happens, nobody will have resistance to it and a pandemic is inevitable.
The big question is, will this happen with H5N1? Is the risk big enough that you should be concerned? Should you start stockpiling food and water and face masks and other necessities on the basis of a threat that may never come to pass?
Our purpose with this website is to provide you with the kind of information you need in order to make a balanced, reasonable approach to the issue.
There are hundreds of websites on the topic that have cropped up in the past few months. Many are thinly disguised sites that are designed to sell you their products. Our Links page will help you find the good ones.
If you sign up for our newsletter we'll keep you informed on a regular basis on the latest developments. If you'd like to be pro-active and help inform others we'll send you free brochures to pass out. If your employer doesn't yet have a business continuity plan in place, we have one that you can download at no charge.
You'll find a few products on our site as well. They're products that we believe in. Products that we've personally checked out. And they help finance our mission, which is to inform as many people as possible about the possibility of a pandemic, and ultimately to save lives.
Bob & Julie Butler
Victoria, BC, Canada
