Posted on 05/17/2006 11:40:13 AM PDT by JZelle
Bird-flu cases have dropped sharply in Europe and have not caused the human calamity expected in Africa, health officials report. Meanwhile, Vietnam, which has the world's largest death toll from avian influenza at 42, has been free of the disease in both people and poultry all this year. Thailand, which has had 14 deaths from avian flu, has not had a human case since mid-2005, nor one in poultry in six months, according to the United Nations.
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And Y2K.
Yet they wonder why we don't take their predictions of doom and gloom seriously.
Maybe....
BUT don't get cocky: Y2K is near!
I guess this means that there isn't much of a threat from Manbearpig either.
I don't believe we've heard the last of H5N1 yet.
Nothing to worry about, blam. These are just a bunch of WOGs who live on the other side of the world and don't have our advanced health care. /sarc
(Avian influenza) A/ Indonesia/5/2005
It's also the strain that started the US government program for Military personel vaccinations.
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