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Originally posted by slakjaw
65 People have died from the Bird Flu. Thats in the last 2 or 3 YEARS. (IMO that's not a pandemic)
And we are talking about Troops on American streets.???
Bird Flu does not necessarily mean H5N1, it could be 100 different strains. Then you examine the birds that have died and find out that the birds lived in horrendous environments.
Why is the fear being created? is it because of the blunder with the hurricane? or is it for another reason? Why is all the propaganda being used on H5N1? nobody is even talking about the "regular" Flu this year.
The Bush administration keeps on peddling fear and creating panic. Bush has talked to five drug company's about 600 Million doses of vaccine. ($$$)
WTF is the real agenda here?
Kyle
(I know there is another post on here about the Bird Flu but I wanted to take a diffrent stance on it.)
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Keep in mind that it's the World Health Organization that is talking most about the bird flu. That's under the UN, not the White House. They've been talking about this since 1997, so it's not at all recent.
Yes, it is indeed H5N1 that they are worried about. It can't yet go from person to person (easily, has happened only twice), but it has a 50% mortality rate in humans when it goes from bird to human. The regular flu does not have a 50% mortality rate in humans.
If you say it's not H5N1, then you have not been paying attention for the last eight years. Science magazine recently had an entire issue devoted to H5N1.
Most of the birds found dead are in the wild. Hundred of millions of domesticated birds have been culled in an attempt to stop the virus, but most were not sick.
All flu viruses start in birds. They are the natural reservoir. The 1918 flu was a bird flu that mutated so that it could jump from person to person.
It is expected that H5N1 will follow that same path within a few years.
The thing that worries WHO so much is that they recently discovered that H5N1 will not require recombination with a human flu virus to become virulent, which greatly increases the chances that there will be a pandemic soon. This was published just last week.
No, there's nothing you can do about it, so there is not much point in worrying.