What happened to Bird Flu!?

Hahaha I just remembered that shit.. Everyone thought the world was gonna die.. I wasnt on these forums back when it was a big world scare, so I dunno what your views on it were.. But man, talk about paranoid mofos.. Its funny how everyone in the drug war talks about how weed makes everyone paranoid, then they go get fucking scared shitless about some bullshit that didn't come to anything much...
It kinda makes you lose faith in other world issues like global warming and everything. I mean, personally I do believe that humans have created a huge mess of earth, and that global warming is real.. But I highly doubt that it will happen to the predictions of heaps of scientists, you know? Like how world water levels will rise and in 50 years big ass cities will be underwater. Its over-exaggerating to the fucking daaaays, you feel me?
Anyway whatever aye.Have a good day :jointsmile:

Bird Flu is still around, same goes for SARS. Just because they haven't received much coverage on the news doesn't mean they have disappeared. The viruses obviously haven't caused as much of a disaster as originally thought, but as long as they exist they still pose a worrying threat I guess.

It wasn't really ever that much of a scare.

The media idiots just made it seem like it was thats all...

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Originally Posted by mattisnotonfire

It wasn't really ever that much of a scare.

The media idiots just made it seem like it was thats all...

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To a certain degree yes, it was still a very important story though and deserved the coverage. Thousands upon thousands of birds dying, and the chance of humans contracting it is something I'd like to know about.

The media are far from idiots.

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Originally Posted by Nation_1ne

To a certain degree yes, it was still a very important story though and deserved the coverage. Thousands upon thousands of birds dying, and the chance of humans contracting it is something I'd like to know about.

The media are far from idiots.

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Yeah, OK, I see your point - I used the term 'idiots' a bit losely.

What I suppose I actually meant is that, whilst being an important issue, the story was over used by the media, thus, creating a pointless worldwide scare.

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Originally Posted by mattisnotonfire

Yeah, OK, I see your point - I used the term 'idiots' a bit losely.

What I suppose I actually meant is that, whilst being an important issue, the story was over used by the media, thus, creating a pointless worldwide scare.

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Yeah, fair enough. Like I said previously I do agree. Whilst it was on the news and important it was clear to see there was a mass scare due to such heavy coverage.

I believe there was a story on BBC News a couple of months ago in the UK, talking about the worry of another Bird Flu epidemic. Did you happen to see it?

Yeah true I guess I was kinda getting at that aswell.. I'm from New Zealand and for a while, it was pretty much front page news nearly every day for a few weeks.. They made it into this huge thing everyone talked about..

Haha Nation1ne.. Be wack if the virus did mutate and humans started dieing everywhere just when I make this thread :stoned:

edit: Oh yeah and SARS was the other one I was trying to think of.. Haven't heard about that in a looong time?

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Originally Posted by L Rag

Haha Nation1ne.. Be wack if the virus did mutate and humans started dieing everywhere just when I make this thread

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Ha, it sure would be! But at least I'll have someone to blame right?

actually there was another outbreak of bird flu just a few days ago... can't remember what day or where, but i remember seeing it on the news...

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Originally Posted by Nation_1ne

Ha, it sure would be! But at least I'll have someone to blame right?

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If you hadn't posted, then the other dudes wouldn't have posted in reply 2 you, and then noone would have posted, so noone would have read this, so you wouldn't be able to blame me so its your fault so blame yourself :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho

actually there was another outbreak of bird flu just a few days ago... can't remember what day or where, but i remember seeing it on the news...

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:wtf::stoned::yippee:

Almost just as worse as Y2K! that shit was dumb.. lol

They're burning chickens in Norfolk at the moment.

birdflu never left!

Histoplasmosis is bird flu !!

My bro had it over the past summer, the docs thought he had cancer, it was bird flu!

really scared my fam, but bro is fine now the meds he takes cost him $700.00 a month, not easy for him to pay that, but he cant get free meds.

How my bro got bird flu is, he was cleaning his guttering system on his house last April
there was a part in the guttering that was clogged, he pulled a panel back and a bunch of dead birds came falling out, bro said it was nasty! slimy! gooey! stinky!
that crap fell right in bros face

thats how he got bird flu

someone else I heard about got bird flu from her parakeet

if you get birdflu once your immune to it forever

inhaling bird shit is how to get bird flu

anybody remember the swine flu scare?
That was a crock!

fuck bird flu, MRSA is much much much much much much much much more of a threat.

Govt uses scare tactics to control the people. Been used since day one.

Why don't they stop intensive farming methods, it's no wonder there is so much disease amongst all these farm animals. I reckon that would soon get rid of it. I've seen the inside of some of these chicken farms.

Govt uses scare tactics to control the people. Been used since day one.
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yes and

if its got a dollar sign behind it the American gov is all over it!

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Originally Posted by crudemood

Almost just as worse as Y2K! that shit was dumb.. lol

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Apparently Y2K did cause problems. I recently read a post from a Valve coder (game company) and he explained that he had to do a lot of work fixing errors that Y2K caused.

The errors weren't on games by the way lol.

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Originally Posted by Nation_1ne

Apparently Y2K did cause problems. I recently read a post from a Valve coder (game company) and he explained that he had to do a lot of work fixing errors that Y2K caused.

The errors weren't on games by the way lol.

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the ysk bug was a problem, but it was greatly magnified by the media and the people who needed to know about it had known about it for a long time and had taken steps to fix it.

it was only once it ciculated in to the real world that it got blown up.

as far for bird flu, it is likely that in uk the cold weather has helped reduce it.

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Originally Posted by Metaphor

fuck bird flu, MRSA is much much much much much much much much more of a threat.

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Again - media poisoning(either that or you're being sarcastic, I can't tell over a forum ;)).

This winds me up particularly as I am a student nurse...

Yes MRSA is a threat, but it responds well to antibiotics that the MRSA isn't resistant to, Vancomycin being the main one used.

Most healthy people are not at risk of getting the infection if precautions are taken i.e. hand washing/hand gels.

The reason that it is contracted mainly in hospitals is because people here already have a weakened immune system, open wounds (including catheters/venflons etc.)

People on large, frequent courses of antibiotics are at risk too. (this is how the infection exists in the first place, research MRSA...)

Anyways, lecture over. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by mattisnotonfire

Again - media poisoning(either that or you're being sarcastic, I can't tell over a forum ;)).

This winds me up particularly as I am a student nurse...

Yes MRSA is a threat, but it responds well to antibiotics that the MRSA isn't resistant to, Vancomycin being the main one used.

Most healthy people are not at risk of getting the infection if precautions are taken i.e. hand washing/hand gels.

The reason that it is contracted mainly in hospitals is because people here already have a weakened immune system, open wounds (including catheters/venflons etc.)

People on large, frequent courses of antibiotics are at risk too. (this is how the infection exists in the first place, research MRSA...)

Anyways, lecture over. :thumbsup:

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lol thats why i go private, they have gels everywhere.

plus you get free coffee and parking

haha ya i wonder, and that one with meat . . . and cows???

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Originally Posted by mattisnotonfire

Again - media poisoning(either that or you're being sarcastic, I can't tell over a forum ;)).

This winds me up particularly as I am a student nurse...

Yes MRSA is a threat, but it responds well to antibiotics that the MRSA isn't resistant to, Vancomycin being the main one used.

Most healthy people are not at risk of getting the infection if precautions are taken i.e. hand washing/hand gels.

The reason that it is contracted mainly in hospitals is because people here already have a weakened immune system, open wounds (including catheters/venflons etc.)

People on large, frequent courses of antibiotics are at risk too. (this is how the infection exists in the first place, research MRSA...)

Anyways, lecture over. :thumbsup:

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Thanks for the info, ill keep washin my hands.

man the birds just flu away....

no pun intended.

Bird flu is still prominent; our hospital has had a lot of staff meetings and plans for an outbreak that is overdue... The scary thing about the specific strain of the bird flu virus, called H51N1, is that it's got an alarmingly high death rate. 60% of the cases have died so far- the virologists studying it says people with good immune systems near the ages of 20-40 are at the highest risk because with H51N1, your body' immune system goes into severe overdrive, and can literally fill your lungs with fluid because it overcompennsates.

MRSA is also a very real threat, but it can be destroyed (although it takes a good while) with heavy antibiotics. There is no vaccination yet for H51N1. While H51N1 is still in the infant stages of developing into a pandemic, the virus (which previously could only spread from avian livestock to other livestock) has mutated so that now, it is able to spread to humans. While it has not yet mutated that we know of spreading from human to human, if it does, we might be in some biiig trouble. Most of us don't spend lots of time in constant contact with chickens and ducks, but there are many people who do, who have families, friends, ect. It can spread much quicker than one thinks.

It's not gov't propaganda; if anything, a lot of defense branches aren't as concerned about the virus as they should be. I'm not saying we should go around screaming the end is near, but instead, to exercise good prevention habits and plan something in case we do get hit.

Good news is the virus mainly occupies the lower lobes of the lung, so it would require more force to spread, but it will.

mattisonfire- you're a student nurse? You had mentioned to Birdgirl you were in pre-med school. Are you doing both, or did you just get confused?

Its still around. It kills all sorts of people in China every year.

But the whole thing was just the flavor of the month for the big news corporations like CNN or Fox or MSNBC. Just like the MRSA thing right now. The media needs ratings and as long as they use things we all fear (like disease, global warming, child predators, etc.) they'll get the ratings the crave.

Not to say those things aren't horrible and important though. They are.

Yeah, really, we've had MRSA for a good decade... Why all of the coverage now? Because hospitals and people tend to let it go, reduce the good hygeine practices (like not rooming fresh post-op patients in rooms with MRSA patients), and doctors keep overprescribing unnecessary antibiotics to children of parents who spray Lysol on every damn thing.

The rate's simply increased because a lot of things are catching up with us. We need to adjust our bad hygeine habits and replace them with better handwashing, proper antibiotic use, and letting the kids play in the dirt.

GO TO CHAT PEOPLE

The bird flu got sars, and died because it didnt get a flu shot.

Hi all-
If you want to follow the bird flu, you can go to the scariest online forum on the web which is at:
Avian Flu Talk.com

there's another disease birds are transmitting...

cherpes

and there's no tweetment for it yet.

I just moved to New Zealand from Cali, your country is sick.

I saw a scientific american documentary about the bird flu, and though its a hazard to birds apparently the chances of the disease mutating into something that be crossed not only to a human but from human to human are extremely low, so no worries