This 'bird flu'. M$M giving it a lot of coverage.

[Deja Q]

Anyone else wondering why it's given such attention?

We all die, it's a matter of where, when, how, and maybe by whom.

[Avalux]

1. Terror!!!

They want us to be afraid of everything. If and when it happens (and it will) - stay home. :hi:

[TellingLies1]

2. Cause it's new ,

SARS got alot of the same kind of coverage.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. SARS only killed 5% of the people it infected....Avian Flu is....

....killing 75% of the people it infects. The coverage Avian Flu is getting may be well deserved.

[still_one]

7. in some respects yes and some no

sars was ignored until it started to spread outside of Asia, then it made news

This has not begun yet, so maybe there is time. The potential for this is far worse than sars

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Do a Google search on "avian flu"....quite a few countries are....

...already taking action to attempt to protect their borders and build up a vaccine supply.

The only trouble with building up a vaccine supply is that the version of the avian flu for which the vaccine is prepared will not be the version that hits the general population. Reading between the lines, it appears that the stuff appears to be mutating rather rapidly.

And how the heck do you protect your borders when a person could come in contact with the avian flu in Country A, travel to Country B that same day, and not come down with the flu until 3 or 4 days later? There would be no indicators during the first day or two that a person was infected.

[still_one]

4. It is about time

The potential if this ever mutates and is spread people to people could be as bad as the 1918 flu epidemic which killed millions

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. The 1918 Pandemic killed a little more than 5% of the people....

....it infected. It killed millions because it was very infectious, and spread rapidly around the world.

Avian Flu is killing 75% of the people that it's infecting....if it ever mutates to a more infectious form for humans, it might make things very interesting.

[still_one]

11. exactly

[K-W]

5. Because they think disease stories sell. EOM

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Because if hundreds of millions of consumers die suddenly

it could eat into their profits.

[EVDebs]

10. Great New Yorker article on Bird Flu recently...Scared the $#$#& out of me

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/index.ssf?050228on_onlineonly01

H5N1 is the strain. It jumps from birds to humans without the usual stopover in pigs. Kills quickly and in vast amounts.

Newspaper article about Vietnam today needing help on this matter.

Let's hope our CDC and its containment program in SEAsia is up to the battle.

If it comes, almost all poultry will probably have to be exterminated and people will have to be quarentined.