What happened to Bird Flu!?

[snowblind]

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:

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

plus you get free coffee and parking

[naturelovinpuffer]

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

[Metaphor]

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:

Thanks for the info, ill keep washin my hands.

[Cannabis-Sativa]

man the birds just flu away....

no pun intended.

[Purple Banana]

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?

[rebgirl420]

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.

[Purple Banana]

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

[Narf!]

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

[Jergens]

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

[FoTwenny]

there's another disease birds are transmitting...

cherpes

and there's no tweetment for it yet.