Breaking News! Bird Flue Comes To The USA

brxndxn

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OMG OMG OMG 1 case OMG OMG OMG *panics*

I don't understand why bird flu is such a big deal yet..
 

gigapet

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Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.
 

K1052

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*starts cleaning the guns*

You'll never take me alive Avian Flu.
 

sao123

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Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.


It aint about never getting sick... its about sirviving the next big mutation like the spanish flu. Its coming and it will kill millions. It may now be the Avian Flu, but there will be a pandemic in the future, and scientists believe it will be soon. It was almost SARS, whats next?

A few links are forthcoming. I read them last week and need to find them agian.
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.

I think you're failing to understand that the people who catch this strain don't get out of bed - they die in their bed.
 

tec699

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sao123 is correct.

This isn't just some flu that is going to make people sick. This is a flu that could possibly wipe out millions: Your wife, father, mother, grandmother and grandfather, your precious little baby, and YOU could possibly fall victim to this deadly virus.

And god forbid if iut starts mutating and we can't find a cure.

god help us all. :(
 

Paulson

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.

I think you're failing to understand that the people who catch this strain don't get out of bed - they die in their bed.
Not everyone dies... half the people have died so far from bird to human mutation... we don't know what it's like from human to human mutation...
 

gigapet

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.

I think you're failing to understand that the people who catch this strain don't get out of bed - they die in their bed.

yes ppl without well estabilished immune systems, small children, the elderly etc.....

healthy adults dont really have to worry.
 

Medicine Bear

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.

I think you're failing to understand that the people who catch this strain don't get out of bed - they die in their bed.
I'm sure some healthy people will die from it, but for the most part the folks that will die will be the young, the old, or the people with already compromised immune systems.

Both of my father's parents caught the Spanish flu and survived it without much issue. Heck his mother was fighting Polio at the same time. Tough old woman. Still alive and kicking.
 

Feldenak

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Originally posted by: tec699
sao123 is correct.

This isn't just some flu that is going to make people sick. This is a flu that could possibly wipe out millions: Your wife, father, mother, grandmother and grandfather, your precious little baby, and YOU could possibly fall victim to this deadly virus.

And god forbid if iut starts mutating and we can't find a cure.

god help us all. :(

Umm...we don't really "cure" virii. The best we can do is innoculate against them and even that isn't foolproof. If you get the "bird flu" the best you can do is get some symptomatic relief but that's about it.
 

Paulson

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Originally posted by: gigapet
Originally posted by: Ryan
Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.

I think you're failing to understand that the people who catch this strain don't get out of bed - they die in their bed.

yes ppl without well estabilished immune systems, small children, the elderly etc.....

healthy adults dont really have to worry.
Healthy immune systems are what this "pandemic" attacks. It turns the healthy immune system against itself, so the stronger the immune system, the worse off you are.
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.


It aint about never getting sick... its about sirviving the next big mutation like the spanish flu. Its coming and it will kill millions. It may now be the Avian Flu, but there will be a pandemic in the future, and scientists believe it will be soon. It was almost SARS, whats next?

A few links are forthcoming. I read them last week and need to find them agian.
Few people know the extent of the 1918 Flu epidemic. It killed more people than World War One - you know, the war where millions of men died charging machine gun nests?

A Pandemic flu is a VERY scary inevitability. When it comes, you better hope it doesn't come to your neighborhood.

FYI - The "Asian Bird Flu" kills 60% of the people who get it. It's a bit non-intuitive, but if a slightly less virulent strain comes along, we are in serious trouble. Less virulent strains may kill a lesser percentage, but the ironic result is that more survivors are walking around giving it to other people - hence an epidemic breaks out. I heard that if someone gets it and manages to pass it to approximately 40 people, this thing will not be containable and will have to run its course.

"Run It's Course" is a euphemism for fvcking things up for a whole lot of people.

 

0roo0roo

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yea its not just the old and children that died in the past. u need ur lungs to live u know;)
 

gigapet

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: gigapet
Does anyone ever take this flu scare crap seriously? You get the flu, you stay in bed a few days with some nyquil and you carry on with life. What is the big deal....you can't expect to go thru life and NEVER get sick.


It aint about never getting sick... its about sirviving the next big mutation like the spanish flu. Its coming and it will kill millions. It may now be the Avian Flu, but there will be a pandemic in the future, and scientists believe it will be soon. It was almost SARS, whats next?

A few links are forthcoming. I read them last week and need to find them agian.
Few people know the extent of the 1918 Flu epidemic. It killed more people than World War One - you know, the war where millions of men died charging machine gun nests?

A Pandemic flu is a VERY scary inevitability. When it comes, you better hope it doesn't come to your neighborhood.

FYI - The "Asian Bird Flu" kills 60% of the people who get it. It's a bit non-intuitive, but if a slightly less virulent strain comes along, we are in serious trouble. Less virulent strains may kill a lesser percentage, but the ironic result is that more survivors are walking around giving it to other people - hence an epidemic breaks out. I heard that if someone gets it and manages to pass it to approximately 40 people, this thing will not be containable and will have to run its course.

"Run It's Course" is a euphemism for fvcking things up for a whole lot of people.

Just sounds like typical media scare tactics to me. I'll believe it when i see it.
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: gigapet
Just sounds like typical media scare tactics to me. I'll believe it when i see it.
As I said, it's an inevitability. The health authorities are as on top of this as their budgets allowed. The media is feeding off this and hyping it up.

Is this Asian Bird Flu going to kill us all? Maybe yes but probably no. However, it WILL happen.

 

gigapet

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: gigapet
Just sounds like typical media scare tactics to me. I'll believe it when i see it.
As I said, it's an inevitability. The health authorities are as on top of this as their budgets allowed. The media is feeding off this and hyping it up.

Is this Asian Bird Flu going to kill us all? Maybe yes but probably no. However, it WILL happen.

What do you die from exactly?