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To: ordinaryguy

I may be uneducated about the disease. What concerns me is that people seem to be ready to panic at any moment, here in the US. There is a run on tamiflu. This is really blown out of proportion imo.

I know it is in ducks and chickens and has even been spread to the caged birds in England when they came in contact with infected poultry.

My uneducated understanding is that the disease is being spread to humans in third world countries by folks using bad sanitation practices.

I really don't think the sky is falling.


14 posted on 01/20/2006 7:54:01 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it
What concerns me is that people seem to be ready to panic at any moment, here in the US.

So, your solution to what you see as irrational panic is to spew misinformation? Maybe if you knew more about the disease, you might be more concerned about what it could do to the world and a little less concerned about people blowing it out of proportion.

17 posted on 01/20/2006 8:07:34 PM PST by ordinaryguy
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To: snippy_about_it
"I really don't think the sky is falling."

You're sure spending a lot of time on the 'bird flu' thread not to be worrying about it.

22 posted on 01/20/2006 9:13:27 PM PST by blam
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To: snippy_about_it

A relative of mine works at a state health department. They are actively planning and preparing for the Bird flu virus to appear here in the US relatively soon.


33 posted on 02/15/2006 8:15:54 AM PST by PilloryHillary (Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
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