7/27/2019 Ceremonial Speech Ilham Septiadi 1110912010
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NAME : ILHAM SEPTIADI
BP : 1110912010
SUBJECT : CEREMONIAL SPEECH
Assalamualaikum Wr.Wb.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen,
First of all I would like to thanks to all my colleagues and my
officers that are now here to
witness this special occasion . It's been my grateful honor to
be Included with this group that
would brought me up into a good citizen and a good leader as
well.Did you know that during the first six months of 2004,
approximately 200 million birds died or
were destroyed in attempt to stop the pandemic of avian
influenza (5)? Did you hear that United
Nations coordinator, Dr David Nabarro, estimated the number of
possible human casualties as 5-
150 million people? Are you aware that since its discovery in
the 1990-ies the avian flu has been
contracted by more than 100 people, and one half of them died
(6)?
Such figure may appear too abstract for us, as well as the avian
flu itself raging somewhere on
the other side of the world. In our corner of the world
everything is fine, most of us love chicken
meat, and are not going to deny ourselves a Mac Chicken on
week-ends. But the eye-opener for
us all is the fact that the avian flu epidemic is much closer to
America than it seems. If it strikes,
no one listening to this speech will be immune, and "there won't
be Tamiflu or hospital beds for
everybody", the officials say (6). So my thesis is that the only
way of prevention of an avian flu
epidemic in the USA is inoculation.
The vaccine was synthesized by the National Institutes of
Health, and it creates a protective
immunity in the human organism in two rounds of inoculation (6).
The truth is that it won't cure
an infected individual, but it will prevent a disease. At the
moment there is no treatment for the
human modification of the avian flu. The medication called
"Tamilflu", elaborated by Roche
Pharmaceutical in Switzerland, can only "slow the ability of the
virus to overwhelm your body
and make lots of copies of itself and that buys you time to
develop appropriate immunity and kill
it off", if taken in the first 36 hours (6). All in all, isn't
it more appropriate to inoculate yourself
against a lethal disease and minimize the chance of its
contraction than resorting to Tamilflu to
slow down the infection? The US government has already purchased
some six million doses of
vaccination, so if you apply for vaccination at his very moment,
you are most likely to be
