Bird Flu.. Are You Worried?

**Duke of Rezin** · October 24th, 2005, 09:43 PM

If HN51 recombines with a human strain and retains the same lethality as it currently enjoys, we are in for a lot of trouble and there won't be any hiding from it. This will be even more so if also retains the same level of mutability. However, on a brighter note, it could just as easily combine, mutate, and then quickly peter out just as the so-called "Spanish flu" of 1918. Natural selection doesn't always work in the favor of the organism (if one were to consider a virus to be a living organism, which most virologists/biologists/healthcare workers do not). If it does, though, it may likely kill upward of a billion folks or so. Malthus would be pleased. In the known present, if the virus remains an avian strain then one still needs to consider the consequences of the worldwide elimination of a very vital source of animal protein, especially taking into account the worldwide depletion of seafood stocks. This bug's a real nasty.

**Gabriel** · October 25th, 2005, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by DiR[ëctory]

There is where you are WRONG!

Taken from http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/bubonic_plague/

I stand corrected

**clauded** · October 25th, 2005, 05:30 PM

there ss too much if and maybe ,if it does and what have you to lose sleep on something that just might happen,as for the apocalyptic scenario put out that`s all they are scenario we won`t know before and if it happens,like i said before there is quite enough bad things happening know to keep us worried with the present,my 2 cents

**Deadeye901** · October 25th, 2005, 06:36 PM

The actual killer was the pneumonia that accompanied the infection.

THe Flu won't kill you. It's pneumonia that'll get ya.

and.. No, I'm not worried.

Wash your hands. Eat right, get plenty of rest.

**Potato Salad** · October 25th, 2005, 07:52 PM

It could cross breed with AIDS and make HIB Halucinogentic Iritable Birds.

**TripleRLtd** · October 25th, 2005, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by clauded

there ss too much if and maybe ,if it does and what have you to lose sleep on something that just might happen,as for the apocalyptic scenario put out that`s all they are scenario we won`t know before and if it happens,like i said before there is quite enough bad things happening know to keep us worried with the present,my 2 cents

I'll say it again:
PLEASE pass that joint over to me. I need some "stress relief"

**Potato Salad** · October 25th, 2005, 09:12 PM

What joint i have no joint

*Sends joint via email*

**TripleRLtd** · October 25th, 2005, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Potato Salad

What joint i have no joint

*Sends joint via email*

Thanks a bunch.
AHHHHHHH....I needed that......
I'll pass it to -ed when I'm, done.

**Potato Salad** · October 25th, 2005, 09:17 PM

Dont get any virus's in it or spyware or you'll ruin it.

**Potato Salad** · October 25th, 2005, 09:17 PM

Just think sumbody could hack the joint and turn it into grass.

**TripleRLtd** · October 25th, 2005, 09:25 PM

I don't know about all that, but you seem to be the "ingredient" man here now.

**Potato Salad** · October 25th, 2005, 09:28 PM

Aye im just that guy you see on the street minding his own NON-ILLEGAL bussines.

**El_Squid** · October 27th, 2005, 09:22 AM

The Bird Flu is just nature's way of saying there's too darned many of us on the planet. It may be that the Human Herd is in need of culling, before it succeeds in totally destroying the environment. Who knows, on an evolutionary level, it may be good thing.

Tree-huggy enough for you?

**Mayet** · November 3rd, 2005, 08:22 PM

Recent study has found that the 1918 spanish flu epidemic was in fact a "bird Flu"

the disease has mutated in Vietnam and was transmissible by human to human in the cases of two nurses who contracted the disease while treating a bird flu patient.

In the last few weeks the media attention has magnified blowing everythign else off the headlines except bird flu

Incidently... gilead created the tamiflu drug to combat the flu and tamiflu is one of two drugs they can use for treatment successfully

Donald Rumsfeld was board director for Gilead up until he accepted the position of defence secretary... and he still owns huge amounts of stoock in the company...so we know who benefits there....

but the media attention makes you wonder, is the media responsible for hyping this situation up does the situation not exist so seriously as we are led to believe..or should we be afraid very afraid....

**TripleRLtd** · November 3rd, 2005, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Mayet

but the media attention makes you wonder, is the media responsible for hyping this situation up does the situation not exist so seriously as we are led to believe..or should we be afraid very afraid....

Well, that is always the question. Who and/or what to believe. So, what do YOU believe?