I haven’t really been following the whole bird flu hullabaloo because it didn’t seem to be relevant to me. After all, I don’t own a chicken farm. I don’t even own a parakeet.
But after listening to a radio interview on this issue yesterday, I did some more research and found a website with some interesting articles.
It sounds like it could be a much bigger deal than I realized … and it could eventually affect humans who don’t own birds, like me.
“March 13, 2006 - In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird flu outbreak approaches the United States.”
“WHO said bird flu could potentially cause more deaths than those from the global flu pandemics. Because the H5N1 virus is airborne, it is easier to transmit and much more contagious than HIV/AIDS, WHO officials said.”
“No one can say if or when it would happen, but if H5N1 acquired the ability to pass easily from human to human, it could spark a pandemic that would kill millions or even tens of million within a few short months.”
To read more, go here.
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The WHO is in on this? What do old rockers have to do with a pandemic? Most of their brain cells are probably gone anyway....
Do Kevinicus and Aminicus even know who The WHO is?
"Clearly not."
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