Bird Flu Pandemic

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With all these stores in the news about it, its obvious there is going to be a bird flu pandemic. I think I better buy a N-95 mask.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051009/ap_ ... u_pandemic


Great. More worry news.

Honestly, from what I've seen on the news, this is just an attempt to distract the U.S. from all the other horrible things that are going on (notably that the economy is going to crap quickly)

As I undestand it, this disease still has to jump the species barrier from birds to humans - while diesease do do that sometimes, it seems premature to panic the whole world about something that hasn't happened yet . . . thus my theory that it is just a distraction topic . . .

But I could be wrong - it seems that nature is really trying to get rid of humans this year . . .

pandemic? 60 people have died so far. is that a pandemic, then?

note the use of future perfect tense

i always do, blade, i always do...

I honestly think that it's just a media hype to get people to pay attention to them at the moment. I can forsee it getting bad, but then it would have to be able to spread directly from person to person (efficiently) AND become less virulent. If the H5-N1 kills off too many humans, it won't survive. The only way for it to survive (and therefore, create a pandemic) is for it to only kill a few humans.

Truly the last flu of 1918 may have 60 million but has any flu killed that many since then I say no. You may be worrying for nothing come on would You.