Posted on 10/18/2005 11:22:10 AM PDT by JZelle
If the doom-criers are correct, as they well may be, the only thing the rest of us can do to prepare for the coming bird flu pandemic is to call a lawyer, not a doctor. The lawyer can draw up a will, and then we should all look for a cemetery plot. Here's a scenario more terrifying than anything from radical Islam, and the bulletins from Turkey, Romania and only yesterday from Macedonia tell of new infections of domestic chickens, ducks, and even swans. As long as the disease remains in birds, there's nothing to worry about unless you're Donald Duck or Mallard Fillmore. The strain is easily passed from bird to bird, not so easily passed from bird to human, and so far from human to human probably not at all. About 60 humans, most of them in Vietnam, have died.
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It's George Bush's fault.
This is total BS.
Not all flus are equal...duh!
Quick, what % of those who have contracted bird flu have died?
That is a very important number.
I am still trying to shake the Swine Flu
From what I have heard, this is a different type of virus that hits so quickly at the cellular level that one's immune system shuts down.
I will begin to freak when it jumps from human to human, but we all have to go sometime.
"Quick, what % of those who have contracted bird flu have died?"
Last I read, close to 50%. This was in rural areas where people had very frequent contact with the fowl who carry the virus, in many cases actually living in the same quarters with chickens, ducks, etcetera, and thes people had little to no access to health care of any kind. So, the 50% number is not going to be predictive outside of similarly unsanitary environments.
I believe projection for "first world" countries, should a pandemic occur, is on the order of 5%, but I'd have to do a little searching to be absolutely certain.
If marauders from the planet Mongu attack, and enslave us all, Bush will go down in history os the president who failed to protect us from interplanetary assault. He will go down in infamy, and deservedly so.
I'm not saying its going to happen, I'm just saying "if" it happens.
The death rate for these reported cases has been about 50 percent. CDC Link (see section titled "What is the risk to humans from the H5N1 virus in Asia)"
LOL! I'm still waiting to get my shot for the Swine Flu. 29 years (or so) and counting...I hope I don't get it!
I woke up with a case of the "brown bottle flu" this morning.
Just repairin' the old tag line ... nothin' to see here folks.
Doesn't Revelations talk about flu and rumors of flu?
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