The Bird Flu.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DaShi
SARS was more about a country being so inept and corrupt in its public health practices that threat of an epidemic originating from it became a worldwide concern.

Ah, yes. DaShi and his One Trick. You can almost hear the axe grinding, too.

Note the use of such terms as "epidemic" and "worldwide cocern" that is an indication of hysteria on DaShi's part.

Originally posted by DaShi
But we covered this before, when you made the same inaccurate post.

According to DaShi, that is.

[Dinner]

This is a storm in a tea cup. Regular flu kills hundreds of thousands, bird flu has killed a handful in the entire world over its entire existance, but everyone only wants to bird flu.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Oerdin
This is a storm in a tea cup. Regular flu kills hundreds of thousands, bird flu has killed a handful in the entire world over its entire existance, but everyone only wants to bird flu.

Leaving aside the fact that "everyone only wants to bird flu" makes it sound like a dance craze from the 60's ...

This is very true. In fact, my wife just started working for the branch of the WHO that deals with immunization; measles, mumps, polio, japanese encephalitis, etc. These are diseases that are far more destructive than bird flu has proven to be or is likely to prove to be. They are also diseases that are devastating poor SE Asian countires right now. Yet money, personnel, and other resources for immunization have been cut at WHO in order to funnel them to bird flu. That's a real problem.

[Dinner]

I meant everyone only wants to talk about bird flu.

[binTravkin]

Worried?

I say you dismiss this stupid panicking - the government is simply trying to entertain the people and take their thoughts away from the wrongdoings in the country.

[Tingkai]

Snoopy, you need to get your father to calm down.

There is nothing wrong with eating properly cooked chicken. Buying raw chicken and cooking it yourself may become dangerous if the virus mutates.

There is no 100% certainty that the virus will mutate into a form that can pass between people, at least in the immediate future.

I suspect that whether it can be treated likely depends on what form it mutates into, but I'll leave that to the doctors here.

Whether a mutated virus will infect everyone and kill half of those infected is simply a guess (the idea that it will be 100% contagious sounds outlandish).

What will happen if the virus mutates is hard to say, but the idea that borders would be closed is unlikely. Few countries could survive with closed borders.

And remember how some people panicked over SARS. That's a good lesson for not panicking over bird flu.

[germanos]

Re: The Bird Flu.

Originally posted by Sn00py
Yet, my father sends me this message (icq):

...

they say the likley hood of people catching it from each other is 100%...it will kill 50% of those who catch it...

Nonsense

[Solly]

I've already had it.

[Dinner]

Naw, you just ate under cooked chicken at a dodgy kabab shop.

[lord of the mark]

Poly Poster, 1917.

'This is a storm in a tea cup. Cholera, measles, mumps, dysentery kill many more people than this "spanish flu" does, yet everyone wants to talk about Spanish flu.'


Of course the ongoing endemic diseases are huge global health problems, esp in less developed countries. (and anyone who hasnt heard about Malaria lately obviously has been missed by the Gates Foundation publicity machine)

But the Bird Flu fears are NOT based on the human death count currently, but the prospect that it COULD become infectious human to human, and that it could start a pandemic resembling that of 1918. Its a fundamentally different concern.

[Chemical Ollie]

It has been found on Swans on the German island Rügen, only 200 km from here. I have lots of swans and ducks crapping in my garden and on my dock whenever the water is open.

It might be a good idea to lock up the kids next summer.

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: The Bird Flu.

Originally posted by germanos
Nonsense

In fact, it doesn't make enough sense even to be considered to be nonsense.

[Dinner]

There is a difference between "Spanish flu" which was just regular flu with one mutation to make it more virolent and speculating about a virus which can only spread from birds will mutate into spreading among mammals. Please be honest enough to admit that.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Ah, yes. DaShi and his One Trick. You can almost hear the axe grinding, too.

Note the use of such terms as "epidemic" and "worldwide cocern" that is an indication of hysteria on DaShi's part.



According to DaShi, that is.

Please discuss the issue and not the poster (you not even addressing me directly ). You've yet to discuss this issue (and many others). In fact, when anyone ever challenges you, you either no longer respond to the topic or attack the poster. Above would be an example of the latter. So unless you can contribute to the issue, please bugger off.

[Krill]

IIRC, the Spanish flu mutated from a strain of influenza that did not infect humans either. It infected pigs mainly, again IIRC...