I concur with Steve, this is NOT about communicating better this is about not getting caught. I think I want to help journalists get better information from them.

Here’s something that the FDA could do stop limiting the press conferences to one question no follow ups. It is ridiculous that USA Today only gets one question and if they “run out of time” then people who follow the story don’t have time to ask good questions.

If I and several poster on this board could have asked questioned in the press conference we could have pointed out just how much there were hiding. I wrote the reporters and said, “You need to demand that they have longer press conferences and more than one question per person.”

But what did the FDA do? Cancel all press conferences.

One question per-open up the press conference

FIP highly contagious and fatal. My Raisin was dead 10 days after she was diagnosed. There was nothing to do. Necropsy confirmed the cause of death. No real blood test, only a titer test for exposure. Raisin an indoor only kitty, rubbed noses with an indoor/outdoor kitty from 2 houses down and she was dead 10 days later. Indoor/outdoor kitty was a carrier….kind of like Typhoid Mary. At the time Raisin was ill I had 6 others at home. The intranasal vaccine had just come out and I did all 6 cats for 2 years after. Vaccine, they say is pretty much ineffective. Biggest clue is jaundice. Whites of the eyes turn YELLOW. Inside of the ears, yellow. Gum tissue is pale pinkish white. Appetite goes completely 2 days after onset of illness. Abdomen swells horribly. It is one really crappy disease. I do not do the intranasal, I just don’t let anyone out. One good thing is the FIP virus dies pretty quickly once it is shed from a cat’s body. FLEUK stays active for awhile and FIV dies very quickly too. Hope this helps you some.

My head is continuing to explode after reading what I missed, but I figured I’d add to head explosions all around.

There is a great information source, called the Havaria Information Service. It contains a worldwide alert map. I have been checking it out for a few weeks now and today I looked at the Biological Hazards all pertaining to China….and all ongoing. Remember the pigs back in April? Getting worse, getting bigger, denials left and right and sideways. Now there are problems with the ducks and chickens. How do I get this information to the FDA? If they want to allow non edible crap from China, maybe I have less of a problem with that. BUT I SURE HAVE A PROBLEM with food and drugs.

How about those defective latex gloves on the OASIS report? I am an Oral surgical nurse and am not comforted by the fact that my hands go in the filthiest place on the human body and now there are holes in the gloves??

Please tell me how to get this Havaria Info to the inept FDA and all the pet foods idiots, oops I mean industry.

And there was someone asking about FIP? Maybe I can help you. I have personal experience with that……

Or perhaps tested the interaction of anti-freeze with the other ‘ingredients’ that we shouldn’t worry about?

Maybe Tylenol® should add a new warning label. It’s prob safer to take with a strong drink these days than a nice catfish dinner.

Ah well, all the kids that don’t like to take their vitamins are def on to something these days . . . They may even be hoping soap lands on the ‘do not use list’ along with toothpaste! ;)