Bird Flu What to Do

"Dr. Fonté's sensible, easy-to-understand guidelines for disaster preparation will go far toward helping mitigate the impact of an impending epidemic in our country. I urge widespread distribution of this excellent publication and broad compliance with its recommendations. In the absence of effective vaccines or medicines, preparation and precaution are our only weapons."

—E. Ratcliffe Anderson, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Loyola University School of Medicine; Former Air Force Surgeon General, former CEO of the American Medical Association

Bird Flu What to Do: Prepare to Survive is a concise, yet comprehensive book that outlines disaster preparation - with a particular focus on what to do if there is an influenza pandemic - for ordinary citizens, covering food/water storage, special needs of those unable to care for themselves, neighborhood and community organization, home health care under dire circumstance, quarantine preparation, and safety/security issues at home. The book both consolidates resources available to the public and goes beyond what is accessible to the ordinary citizen with contributions from experts in diverse fields, and an extended appendix covering what to get, where to get it and additional information that could prove lifesaving.

The book is not fear based, but attempts to normalize disaster preparation, posing it as one the most socially responsible thing we can "just do." This book fills the gap between what public health can do and what we ordinary citizens need to do. Communities, neighborhoods, and families that have made the effort to prepare to survive natural disasters will be more resilient if and when a natural disaster occurs.

About the Author

Verona Fonté Ph.D.

Verona Fonté, Ph.D. worked as a psychologist for over twenty years in academic, clinical and organizational settings. She was Academic Dean at the Saybrook Institute serving a faculty comprised of the founders of Humanistic Psychology such as Rollo May, Jim Bugenthal and Stanley Krippner. Dr. Fonté was at the forefront of the initial programs that emerged into the managed health care model of the early 1980s. For twelve years she was a member of a trauma team with a division of the Department of Justice.

For her doctoral research Dr. Fonté studied women going through an unexpected stressful life ...

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