Specialist say that this is going to be the next pandemic. Its not a matter of if its going to get to a mass amount of humans... Its a matter of when. The Legislature was trying to pass a bill for 7 million dollars to aid scientist on trying to create a vaccine for this flu. The government only agreed to 3 million dollars.

What do you guys think?
Could this be just another scare, like SARS?
Or could this be the killer of millions of people?

Yeah, I saw the trailers for it. I decided that I wasn't going to watch it because Gilmore Girls was on...If there's a pandemic I guess I'm just screwed...

I think their was a movie on ABC tonight about the possibility of an outbreak - kind of like the Oil Storm one and the other one on biological weapons...

It would be stupid not to prepare for a possible bird flu pandemic. However, did you know that there are quite literally millions and billions of microbes and endospores simply sitting around in the world far deadlier than any disease we've ever seen just waiting for the chance to attack a possible host? We can never develop cures and vaccines for all of them. So there is no point in worrying and scaring ourselves over this one.

Black Death is now a global bacteria. It can be found in rats and rodents in the US in the midwest.

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Originally posted by Capricorn_09:
Well, it's crossing the planet. There was a case in Germany yesterday. It's going to get here sooner or later.

Exactly, which means that we need to prepare for it. It would be ignorant and stupid to assume that it couldnt get here. We should prepare for something, that could possibly wipe out half ofour population.

Wouldnt you rather prepare and be safe, than not preparing and than afterwards it happening, and saying to yourself....

I wish i would of.....

I raise pigs in 4-H. Didn't know that, did ya? I also raise calves.

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as long as it stays bird to human and not human to human, we shouldn't really have to worry.

One day it will probably go from human to human. When it does then what?

Oneday this Nation will be hit with a disease that can't be cured. We are on the brink of the pre penicillin age. Even penicillin want be able to help.

A lot of people say that the bird flu want never hit us or that we have enough medicine if it does or it will stay bird to bird.

America has become to relaxed to where we think that nothing can hurt us.
We used to be the most feared Nation in the world, but now we aren't.

The bird flu might be the disease that hits us and wipes us out, who know.

I live in Jordan, a country the World Health Organization declared bird flu free a few days ago. I haven't eaten any chicken in weeks because there was a chicken found dead here that apparently died from the bird flu. There was a lot of killing of birds that ensued for a few weeks... It'll probably be very damaging to the economy, a lot of people really depend on fowl for their food and their money.

I'm not as worried about it as I was before but I think it does have the potential to become a major problem. It probably won't be taken seriously by anyone on this site unless it reaches the US though. Heh.

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It'll also help wipe out unnessecary people such as the old, feeble and dumb

Diseases don't just wipe out dumb people. If it hits your country then you could die. The president could die, Ben Stiller could die... You're missing the big picture here.

Well, it's crossing the planet. There was a case in Germany yesterday. It's going to get here sooner or later.

well, it's coming. But who knows how bad it will be. as long as it stays bird to human and not human to human, we shouldn't really have to worry.

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There is just as much chance that a pig or horse flu will mutate and kill us all,

Omg! RUN AWAY! THE PIG IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!

Hmm..im not to sure about the bird flu. I don't know much about it really so i cant really offer my opinion.

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Originally posted by northstar316:
You people need to stop flipping out over bird flu. Every year it's something different. Ebola, anthrax, sars, west nile, and now this. This disease has killed 78 people IN THE WORLD. The media is just hyping this up because there is no other news, you understand that, right? There is just as much chance that a pig or horse flu will mutate and kill us all, and the same with a human virus. The freakout because of the flu shows nothing but the neurotic tendancies of humans and their consistant subconsious wish to be eradicated gruesomely.

Id rather be safe, than sorry, Id rather see people taking precautions about this, than just blow if of and then become another 1918 inflenza killing 20 to 40 million people.

the HFN1 strain (?is that its name?) is said to be deadly, and only about thre quarters of the cases reported are cuse dby it,but it makes people die faster...

Hmmm...I'm not saying that it is justified to freak out. All I'm saying is that one should always be prepared for the unexpected or the worst case scenerio.

there was a similar avian flu was around last year and they didnt hype it up to be a world killer... im just curious why is it now?

That's probably right. ther was SARS, mad cow disease... lots a little stuff that just disappeared.

But that does NOt mean that we shouldnt take the bird flu seriously. If we took such an attitude to every disease the media porttrayed as a MAJOR SCARE< we'd all probably be dead right now, or in the middle of an even more MAJOR CRISIS. So while you have a point, you still have too remember that CONTAGIOUS is just that: contagious, and that means it can spread in the wink of an eye beyond remedy if we dont monitor and put checks and stops in place, and even more importantly: EDUCATE THE PUBLIC...

You people need to stop flipping out over bird flu. Every year it's something different. Ebola, anthrax, sars, west nile, and now this. This disease has killed 78 people IN THE WORLD. The media is just hyping this up because there is no other news, you understand that, right? There is just as much chance that a pig or horse flu will mutate and kill us all, and the same with a human virus. The freakout because of the flu shows nothing but the neurotic tendancies of humans and their consistant subconsious wish to be eradicated gruesomely.

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Originally posted by iwannastayfree:
I think that the Bird Flu is going to be just like Mad Cow Disease and SARS. Sure some people will be affected, but it will certainly not become a pandemic. I think we should focus more on a cure for AIDS then the "bird flu."

I can somewhat agree. But the bird flu is something we can possibly prevent hurting us,Whereas, AIDS has already taken a toll on millions and millions of people. Yeah, the bird flu has hurt about 100 people. But thats nothing compared to millions upon millions.

I think that the Bird Flu is going to be just like Mad Cow Disease and SARS. Sure some people will be affected, but it will certainly not become a pandemic. I think we should focus more on a cure for AIDS then the "bird flu."

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