View Full Version : Avian Bird Flu
koolking1
10-15-2005, 12:56 PM
widely mentioned
oversea and in the alternate internet media for a good long time now but not a word here in the USA main stream
media till all of a sudden!!! What's this all about?
NaughtieGirl
10-15-2005, 01:23 PM
widely
mentioned oversea and in the alternate internet media for a good long time now but not a word here in the USA main
stream media till all of a sudden!!! What's this all about?
I was actually aware of this threat last
winter as well.
The reason it is such news in Europe is because the avian version (i.e. not yet mutated to
where humans can catch it) has spread as close to Western Europe as Roumania and Turkey.
As far as the US media
are concerned, it has been front page news (Boston Globe, USA Today) ever since the huricane frenzy died down
some.
We need to keep our fingers crossed that it does not mutate this winter, so they have time to manufacture
more vaccines and more Tamiflu. Meanwhile I'm still planning on stocking up on some extra food and water, so that
if there is an outbreak I can stay away from the grocery store and other crowded places. Just one more reason to do
it.
Rakesh
12-03-2005, 10:42 AM
Romania and Turkey, and now I
think Poland (which is next to us, gee), Croatia and Italy
KFC is gonna go bankrupt in Europe :p
Biohazard
12-04-2005, 02:09 PM
Personally, I think the issue
is overrated. More panic than rational thought, due to the memories of Spanish Flu, which was avian in origin.
Avian flu has already been shown to pass from human to human in many cases, but only through close and prolonged
contact. There was a report which came out in the journal of Nature this year which showed that a Vietnamese girl
caught the H5N1 strain while caring for her sick brother, and that strain was resistant to Tamiflu, but sensitive to
Relenza.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7062/full/4371108a.html
It
would take a simultaneous infection of avian and human flu viruses to even present the [extremely] low possibility
of recombination into a strain that passes more easily between humans.
BTW, one should always be prepared for
disasters and not wait for media hype. Everyone should always have a stockpile of water, non-perishable foods,
antibiotics/virals (assuming you're somewhat knowledgable in medicine), guns, ammunition, etc.
Rakesh
12-07-2005, 12:39 PM
Gotta give the media and bored
middle classes something to panic about...
Society needs medial bogeymen (random and totally unbacked
terrorist attack threat levels on fox anyone?).
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