Bird Flu :(
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OMFG WERE ALL DOOMED!!!!! 
oh i can see where i live the map, do i seem worried to you?
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suicidle_tramp said:
Heh, you got sucked into that one. They were doing a trial run to see how defra could handle a case being found in the UK.
Its blooiming amazing and some would say sods law that we would then go and get an actual case that same day on the test day! LOL!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4878198.stm
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What sort of nonce eats chicken raw? Might as well eat poison tbh.Jet said:
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Phnom_Penh said:
heh, it wouldn't be the bird flu that killed you! lol
How long has bird flu been around for??? How come it hasn't mutated yet!? What the hell is all the fuss about? The only people how are gonna be in trouble are the poor farmers who get their stock kulled.
I have difficulty taking bird flu particularly seriously since
a) we have no idea or way of working out when the current virus will mutate or combine to become human/human transmissible, it could be today it could be 50 years from now and
b) until it does become human transmissible we have no idea or way of working out what the fatality rate will be, it could be 1 in 3 or 1 in 300,000.
What's a reasonable response to a threat of undetermined likelihood and undetermined seriousness? My sole response is to listen to the news and read this forum every few days: Flu Clinic
If we do get a global pandemic then avoiding exposure will be impossible, if you manage to lock yourself away for 6 months you’ll just get exposed when you eventually emerge. Our immune systems are the only real protection we have. The interesting point is how well can the country function if say 20% of the workforce are incapacitated (either through illness or fear or illness).
a) we have no idea or way of working out when the current virus will mutate or combine to become human/human transmissible, it could be today it could be 50 years from now and
b) until it does become human transmissible we have no idea or way of working out what the fatality rate will be, it could be 1 in 3 or 1 in 300,000.
What's a reasonable response to a threat of undetermined likelihood and undetermined seriousness? My sole response is to listen to the news and read this forum every few days: Flu Clinic
If we do get a global pandemic then avoiding exposure will be impossible, if you manage to lock yourself away for 6 months you’ll just get exposed when you eventually emerge. Our immune systems are the only real protection we have. The interesting point is how well can the country function if say 20% of the workforce are incapacitated (either through illness or fear or illness).
I think the event has been over hyped by the media... but....
At my microbiology department all my lecturers apparently seem to think its not a question of IF, but WHEN. I'm safely waging they know more than everyone on the forum put together.
I was highly criticised on an essay for not mentioning it much, I personally think the chances of another 'spanish bird flu' event occuring are way reduced due to huge improvements in public health....
I'd love to say it won't happen but when you are told concern is right by someone who studies and researches zoonoses all day, you begin to worry :/
At my microbiology department all my lecturers apparently seem to think its not a question of IF, but WHEN. I'm safely waging they know more than everyone on the forum put together.
I was highly criticised on an essay for not mentioning it much, I personally think the chances of another 'spanish bird flu' event occuring are way reduced due to huge improvements in public health....
I'd love to say it won't happen but when you are told concern is right by someone who studies and researches zoonoses all day, you begin to worry :/
