Are you making preparations for the upcoming Bird Flu (H5N1) ??
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No.  It's total fearmongering, just like the governments all over the world did with 9/11, and Anthrax in the mail etc...\n\nA virus cannot try to mutate.  It just does it.  Flu season for this year is almost over, and who knows what will happen in time for next flu season?
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i will be as sick as a parrot
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Okay the first thing is that currently the brid flu is onyl contagoius from bird to human, not human to human. until the flu can be spread human to human we are okay. But that is what scientists fear. \n\nIs a bird flu pandemic imminent?\n\nShort answer: probably not. But there are many unknowns involved, making accurate prediction impossible.\n\nSooner or later, pandemic flu will happen. Flu pandemics sweep the globe from time to time as new flu bugs emerge. These bugs cause global epidemics -- pandemics -- because humans have little or no immunity to these viruses. Sometimes, as in the war-torn world of 1918, it's a terrible plague. Sometimes, as in 1957 and 1968, it's relatively mild.\n\nBird flu is still a bird disease. The H5N1 bird flu in Asia does not spread well from person to person. It's a leading contender to be the next pandemic flu bug because it has caused an unprecedented epidemic in poultry and wild birds across Asia and Eastern Europe. But nobody knows for sure whether this will be the flu that causes the next human pandemic.\n\nBird flu could become a human flu in two ways.\n\nIf a person were infected with a human flu and the bird flu at the same time, the two viruses could swap genes -- reassort -- and a human version of bird flu could emerge. This is what happened in the last two flu pandemics in 1957 and 1968.\n\nBird flu could also evolve into a form adapted to humans, as was the case in the 1918 flu pandemic. There's evidence the H5N1 bird flu virus has begun this process, but scientists say it isn't yet very far along. Nevertheless, a few H5N1 viruses isolated from humans have acquired some key 1918-like mutations.\n\nAt a World Health Organization news conference in May 2005, Klaus Stöhr, PhD, DVM, project leader for the WHO's Global Influenza Program, was asked whether a bird flu pandemic is imminent.\n\n"With this virus we have had very many surprises; we have had a very steep learning curve," Stöhr said. "We are seeing that it is changing very rapidly. We have also seen that it is not reassorting as everybody thought 18 months ago. So we do not know if a pandemic can occur next week or next year, or perhaps if another virus is going to cause a pandemic. We should simply continue with our pandemic preparedness."\n\nIs there a cure for bird flu?\n\nNo. There's no cure for any kind of flu. \n\nThe H5N1 bird flu bug has been particularly deadly for people unlucky enough to catch it from poultry. But if the bug learns to spread among humans, it almost certainly won't be as deadly as it is now, says Ira Longini, PhD, professor of biostatistics at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta.\n\n"Avian H5N1 looks like a [very high] case fatality in humans. But this has never been true of any human strain," Longini told WebMD. "There has never been any human influenza virus that has behaved that way in recorded or even unrecorded history. The case fatality of even highly virulent flu strains are a couple of deaths per 10,000 people."
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Why? Planning something?
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I think J.D. is wrong. this "pandemic" will eventually find itself in the US and will be a major health problem; one which we are not prepared for!
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you have nothing to worry about. if a chicken comes down with H5N1 it will be culled as current policy holds. and dont worry, so will every other chicken within a certain radius. The virus dont stay in the chicken for long after death. its spread by its poo anyway. And then additionally you'll be cooking it anyway, so yeah, no worrys. eat away
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It's an AVIAN flu virus. We already have it here (~10-15 BIRDS with it and maybe 1-2 people) and it's no big deal right now. IF it manages to acquire the ability for human to human transmission THEN we are all in big trouble. \n\nRight now I would only worry for people that go hunting or people that keep lots of birds. You can only get it from birds...
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Thanks I would love that!!!\n\nPray I'm not going to be sick for along time. I've been sick this whole winter and it stinks.\n\nThank You ~RZ~
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The reason we watch asian flus is b/c the farms there are set up w/ ponds where ducks rest and pigs drink. The duck/bird strains are more likely to mutate to the pig first than to a human- the catch is, a pig is actually very close to us as far as internal working go, and it is easier for a pig strain (origianlly from a bird) can then mutate to infect the farmers... and then spread to the general population. So the likelihood... good. Pray. Peace out.
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GET YOUR FOOD AND BEER READY
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getting ready to reproduce
879330
Bird flu is not equivalent to Y2K; it is worse! It kills people, not computer systems! People can function without computers but they can't function if they are dead!
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Hey don't worry bro its so near .that is it is on 23 may.i am too afraid of it :x
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I work in the health field, and people are already asking if we have the vaccine yet. As far as I know, there won't be any vaccine until maybe six weeks after the virus mutates to human-human transmission, because they can't even make one until then.  Even then there will only be a few million doses. So, being that I'm part of  the first line of patient contact, we'll probably be wearing masks, triaging people through the back door of the clinic, and most likely have a quarantined waiting area. That is, if it ever happens. \nRegarding the family who all came down with the flu and seven of the eight members died -- weren't they all hanging around the same chickens? Doesn't mean it was human to human.
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it scares me tremendously, because I already have an immune disorder!  However, I'm not going to let it controll me.  I'm still going to eat my chicken and turkey as they are a great source of nutrition and I love them!  I look at it as this, if I'm going to die I'm going to die eating what I like, if I stop doing things that could potentially give me something that could kill me then I'd die of starvation and lack of oxygen.  There is not enough time in the day to worry about things that could happen some day vs what is happening now.  Live for the moment as if the momemt may be your last!
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I have heard stories of killer bees being a huge threat, a huge flu season for the last three years, so I'm a little skeptical about this bird flu.\n\nThat being said having an emergency plan for any contingency is ALWAYS a good thing.  The old Boy Scout motto of being alway prepared comes to mind
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I as a Christian believe that the "bird flu" is one of the many, many signs yet to come which means that the end is drawing near. Yes, the "bird flu" is a sign of a plague that could kill many and indeed spread throughout the world if a cure is not soon to be found. Plagues are often man made I believe, maybe not all but a good many. There are many signs still to come in Revelations, but noone can pinpoint the exact day,time, or even year that the Lord will return. Just know this, if you are saved then you will not be left behind, God will take you with him like all the other believers.