Bird Flu preparations

well, this thing is comming and there's no escape from it. (the question is when it's comming and how bad it's going to be?)

 

Ya there are two strains, 1 is the deadly 1 and the 2nd is the 1 that is almsot harmless to the human.

 

with a little bit of luck it will be the second one that will mutate into a human form

 

Really, I was hoping for the 1s one because there are no major wars to control the human population.



You know Iam kidding

 

Did anyone hear? Someone in the LA area got the bubonic plague. Looks like Mothernature is back to whip out a large percentage of the population again, or is she?

 

Good news there is a cure!



Things are looking serious for Orville!



This just in.....bird flu has struck at EuroDisney!

 

Bubonic plague is no longer a real threat to human health thanks to our understanding of the workings of that disease now. We know how to quarantine properly to isolate the virus, and if I remember correctly, several common antobiotics can kill it.

 

Damn it!!!!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

 

Speaking as a medic...there's really no point in getting vaccines and measures to prepare for the avian flu.Because viruses are the hardest to treat and if Grieg will agree,viruses mutate.Two person may have the same flu but different strains.So the vaccine is not effective.A cure will just trigger an even more complicated strain.

 

Correct though the same is true for bacteria, two people can be afflicted by different types.
Also if I might add, it seems to me this whole thing got an overreacted response (gee that's something new) as I haven't heard anything at all about it for at least 3 weeks now.

 

and it takes a couple months (about 4 in belgium) to prepare enough vaccins when bird flu is getting a pandamie. so, not much help from the vaccin side. anyway, how is it with bird flu?? did anybody die lately? do we still have dead floks of birds??
if you ask me, H5N1 just dissapeard from the earth. no more large articles in the news or in newspapers. seems that nobody cares anymore. guess it wasn't as deadly as everybody thought.

 

Well, it is now in Britain, and thousands of chickens etc are being culled in East Anglia.

 

so, it's still out there. didn't know that

 

Take a look:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4963202.stm

Or the comprehensive coverage of Bird Flu, with pretty diagrams ans timelines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/wor ... efault.stm

 

well, it isn't the H5N1 strain.
so, a new strain. in a couple of months it will be another on. we are having new bird flu's poping up for the past years. only H5N1 seems to be lethal for humans.

 

Has it begun? Too soon to say.
I will be watching closely.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aWESsJvt6CFE&refer=asia