Donster Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Whizkid Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Awwww,that's sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donster Posted November 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Awwww,that's sad! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I hope the mouse gets it next! Dies that is...not the avian flu...maybe a new strain of Hong Kong flu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldWSO Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Jeez, Donnie! You had me worried when I read your post's headline...but then I saw that it was you who posted it and figured there had to be a punch line inside. Too effin funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bismarck Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 If I can be serious, I've read some books on the 1918 pandemic and I ask myself if North America and Europe should be utterly frightened about a flu pandemic. I don't think so. The 1918 event got its start in pcked conditoins (barracks and slums) and bad saniatation. Since we're already alert and have better facilities and understanding, we should be able to limit casualities. Africa and Asia are different cases. If you want to be scared, try this: a milder strain of Eubla that doesn't kill the host inside of a week. Now that's spooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Bis, I agree with you 100% about the dissimiliar conditions between the 1918 epidemic and today's bird flu. I've been thinking the same thing about this whole "frenzy" for some time now. I also recall, back in the early 1970's, there was a similar ruckus over "swine flu". See the pattern? These diseases tend to appear in massive populations of tightly-packed (and inhumanely treated) livestock. Farmers cleaned up their act in North America with regard to pigs after that scare and we've not heard a peep about swine flu since. I hate to be a horrible cynic, but I think once the Asian countries have finished milking cash out of the West in order to improve their chicken rearing and handling procedures in the disadvantaged areas, then this problem will quietly fall off the radar screens too. I'm sure there are some huge multi-national corporate interests that would just love to completely take over chicken rearing in Asia, if you know what I mean. Then again...I might be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 The media has a stake in this potential pandemic as well. Headlines of horrible disease and death sell newspapers. Researchers have a stake, the media whips up public hysteria and public wants a cure, so the government gives grant money to researchers to find causes and cures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stag Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 Jeez, Donnie! You had me worried when I read your post's headline...but then I saw that it was you who posted it and figured there had to be a punch line inside. Too effin funny! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not if you like ducks. Crisp fried, rolled in pancakes with hoi-sin sauce! Hmmm. Thinking about it, frying should remove any virus... Where's me wok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itchie Crotchie Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 Sound goodly to Itchie too Stag-san! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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