Author Topic: bird flu (Read 2893 times)

Mamalakabubadaya · « **on:** October 07, 2005, 10:56:00 am »

this is some scary ****:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100700166.html

jocelyn · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:04:31 pm »

Yeah there\'s a lot to worry about with stuff like this lately. Horse owners particularly in New England are going bonkers between dealing with EEE and West Nile. Triple E is particularly scary.

SlimPickens · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:10:23 pm »

it\'s only a matter of time before I adopt the bubbleboy lifestyle.

leith · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:24:00 pm »

Don\'t believe the Hype! Avian Flu bahhh! It\'s just another SARS. How many people mess w/ birds on a daily basis? Do You? Vaccines have been in low supply for years. Flu vaccines esp. It\'s all just smoke. Avian flu has been a "coming calamity" for years now. The media is just picking up steam now. I wonder why?

jocelyn · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:25:17 pm »

I remember there being a big hoorahrah about it a little while ago. Definitely not the firs ti heard of it.

Igziabeher · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:30:49 pm »

they did a piece on that on the daily show last night. apparently it may affect anywhere between 5 (like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and 15 million people.

SlimPickens · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:48:25 pm »

The news programs are definitely going crazy with birdflu right now. I wouldn\'t get all crazy about it, but there are a few things worth considering. Like all flu\'s it can kill, it can spread quickly (once humans are infected), and there currently is no proven vaccine. And since they are still learning about this disease, and it does infect an animal that makes up a huge part of the human food chain, I think it deserves some of its recent attention.

WALSH · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:55:01 pm »

The thing is with all the liberal(and I am one) media wanting to hop on GW\'s case at every turn(not that doesn\'t usually deserve it), they haven\'t stopped to realise that even if we had made "enough" vaccines...by the time it mutates and begins being tranferred by humans...the old vaccines will not work, I really hate the media.

stabmasterarson · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2005, 01:44:56 pm »

Quote from: Igziabeher

they did a piece on that on the daily show last night. apparently it may affect anywhere between 5 (like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and 15 million people.

Saw the same piece, but the expert doing the press release actually said between 5 and 150 million. although i do think it is just a media diversion.

SlimPickens · « **Reply #9 on:** October 07, 2005, 02:29:17 pm »

diversion from what? the quagmire... absurd judicial nominations... rewriting the constitution? i see no reason for a diversion.

melanie · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2005, 03:06:51 pm »

Its still scary. my understanding is its a couple years in the making and flu season in most areas is not year round so thats why the hype at the approach of flu season. it takes a while for it to mutate into the human-human transmissible type whereas right now it can be transmitted bird-human, that is not too far off from being directly transmittable. like the 1918 flu that killed 20-50 million people, and that was before air travel.

SlimPickens · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2005, 03:30:42 pm »

working in healthcare, I can tell you that the government is putting things in place now to track influenza vaccinations amoung the population (at least for the elderly).

WALSH · « **Reply #12 on:** October 08, 2005, 09:40:23 pm »

Who cares about the elderly??

SlimPickens · « **Reply #13 on:** October 10, 2005, 02:52:08 pm »

Quote from: WALSH

Who cares about the elderly??

the pharmaceutical industry.

who ever owns the rights to Matlock.

the folks @ AARP

I could go on and on

Author Topic: bird flu (Read 2893 times)

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