What ever happened to the bird flu?
 

I thought that a few hundred thousand people were supposed to get this by now. What happened? It's not even in the media anymore.

An Iraqi girl just died from it this past week. It is spreading.

I had not heard that.......

Without the predicted mutations and epidemic it's not as newsworthy any longer. There were reports of new cases in China as well as a young girl who died from it in Northern Iraq, where it seems to have travelled from Turkey in the last week or so.

This morn they reported that an effective vaccine has been developed for mice.....

The predicted mutations can occur tomorrow, in a hundred years or anytime in between. "Everything fit to print" - it sold newspapers.

Disappointed ? ;)

From what I understand the avian flu has been around since 1996, but in it's current state is not very contagious. The fear is that someone with the avian flu will catch a second virus and then that dreaded mutation is underway that could affect millions. In the meantime millions of bird are getting inoculations.

3 more people reported dead in Indonesia today. Its still with is and we have not heard the last of it.

wait for it...

that was the media scare of the month...it's over now, let's move on..

Wait I want to play moonbat:

If there's an epidemic, it's Bush's fault. He was warned and didn't take adequate actions to prepare.

If there's no epidemic, it's Bush's fault. He knew it wouldn't be a big deal but used the hysteria as a means of legitimizing the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to his cronies in Big Pharma.

Did I do it right?

Dave,

Rodehard will still say you are wrong and you missed something.

Otherwise you are pretty much right on...

So when chickens get sick do they make people soup?

I think Jeffrey Dahmer did and look where it got him.... cured!

And smoked as well! :)

No, you did not. It was actually Cheney's fault, because Haliburton has a no-bid contract to distribute Tamiflu.

Like I said before, I'm more scared of Ebola. What ever happened to that? That's way scarier, they could really boost their ratings if it came back.

What I heard of ebola was it liquified your insides so quick, you couldn't actually circulate out to infect other people.

Not many people drop by to visit when you have the ebola.

Must still be around, at least in Canada - got this in my inbox a couple of days ago:

Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: Fw: Symptoms of bird flu


>
> Subject: Bird Flu Symptoms
>
> The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) has released
> a list of symptoms of bird flu that the general public should be aware
> of in light of the increasing likelihood of a bird flu pandemic in
> coming months. Any of the following symptoms should be treated
> immediately: 1. High fever
> 2. Chest Congestion
> 3. Nausea
> 4. Fatigue
> 5. Aching in the joints
> 6. Difficulty in pecking at insects
> 7. Flapping wings uncontrollably
> 8. An irresistible urge to ***** on someone's windshield.
>

Blame Bush.