Whatever happened to that good ol' scare tactic?Just a year ago, my substitute teacher was saying that it was inevitable and we will never live to see the age of 40.
Your teacher was an idiot. I think they've contained it by killing the birds who had it. there's still a possibility it could mutate and wreck havoc, but I highly doubt it would kill off as many people as they claim.Yeah I know that the Spanish flu killed millions, but they didn't have the health care we have now. nor did they understand influenza like now.
not to mention that the spanish flu cells that have survived for the past 80 years still haven't mutated a tad, so it's not as if these mutations are frequent.The irony of the avian influenza is that it's actually been spreading more and more and killing more and more people, but people really don't care because it's gone this long without mutating.I think what we should be worried (if we're worried about any disease) about is Marburg. If that disease could get into a metropolitan area that'd be the end.One of the funny things is that it's mutated from H5N1, what they were afraid of, to the benign H7N2 (which is about the intensity of a normal flu), and H5N2 (again, not terminal).The H5N1 has also gone from about a 90% death rate to a 50% death rate. It's proliferating just as much but people aren't all dying from it.
The media is all about scaring the hell out of people or giving them pictures to look at. The bird flu, like global warming, global cooling, the population boom, world starvation, West Nile... and everything else is just a fad and will fade away.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (redneck @ May 28 2007, 01:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Your teacher was an idiot.</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Amare320 @ May 29 2007, 06:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>well I guess she is...but that bird flue crap really scared me for a bit, just a bit that's all.</div>it scared me too, seriously, I wouldn't use a basketball that had landed on bird poop. I'm over it, but wow.there are only 3 reported cases of bird flu in the USA I believe, so there's no need to worry
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Truth @ May 29 2007, 10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>honestly bird flu didnt even cross my mind once during its era</div>it hasn't had an era in the US and it's in its era right now in other parts of the world. sometimes you go around bashing other people when your posts are double idiotic
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ May 29 2007, 09:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>it scared me too, seriously, I wouldn't use a basketball that had landed on bird poop. I'm over it, but wow.there are only 3 reported cases of bird flu in the USA I believe, so there's no need to worry</div> Why would you be scared of bird poop when the virus just affected birds?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Why would you be scared of bird poop when the virus just affected birds?</div>Because he's a dumbass.
I was afraid or marburg for a day or so since it's much more dangerous than bird flu, sars, or ebola, until I found out that there had been less than a thousand cases of it.
