We gotsda birdies...

[Stonehelm]

If a human contracts bird flue while suffering from normal influenza (Flu to me and you) then thats when it will spread from human to human because the two different strands will merge.

Could be a giant kick in the t1ts for us.

 

[Bacardi]

True. But from what i read, you are saying that they should just let bird flu do it's thing? I don't think they should because if they did, then it COULD wipe out the entrie planet. I say could because i am not sure lol :P

But i agree with you on the "earth is already screwed" quote

ok yeah i see how u mite get that from my post, no i dont mean stand back and let it spread. but still we agree that somethin needs to change. evolution dictates survival of the fittest. nodoubt a natural cure or immunity would form somewhere along the spread of the virus, if nature intended humans to survive it. but seeing as how we consider nature far too slow nowadays, y not try fix it ourselves i guess.

 

[Ash]

ok yeah i see how u mite get that from my post, no i dont mean stand back and let it spread. but still we agree that somethin needs to change. evolution dictates survival of the fittest. nodoubt a natural cure or immunity would form somewhere along the spread of the virus, if nature intended humans to survive it. but seeing as how we consider nature far too slow nowadays, y not try fix it ourselves i guess.

o, i miss read your other reply
Now i see exactly what you are saying

I am sure we will fix it ourseleve's eventually, because like you say, nature is much slower now to what it used to be.

 

[CraiG^]

Ok, now your all just worrying, I wonder if we will ever see pebble again >:|

 

[NeoTrunks]

Ok, now your all just worrying, I wonder if we will ever see pebble again >:|

" Pebble hits birdflu for 100" >>"Birdflu gains Enrage , Birdflu hits Pebble for 7632681973168916789167812693 " >>" pebble gains birdflue"

lol ._.'
i dont see pebble here :P

 

[Atomicide]

Anyone following the news on this (as i do cos i think it's ass kickingly awesome. would know this kind of "pandemic" has been in the works for ages. The first time i heard of bird flu and the crap about it spreading from human to human was almost 4 years ago.

Vaccines take years to produce, so the one theyve got going now for another strain is the result of work carried out on that strain years ago. I dont want to be a scare monger but some magic cure isnt going to pop out of nowhere. A vaccine may be rushed through testing etc but thats about it.

evolution dictates survival of the fittest.QUOTE]

It does, and this is where things get complicated becuase bird flu doesnt follow that principle. This isnt anything that gets big on the news but some people discuss it. Bird flu is more likely to kill a healthy teenager/adult than it is to kill a 65+ pensioner with lung problems.

Thats not survival of the fittest. Personally advances in medicine are what made bird flu and other pandemics possible because we develop no natural immunity to anything anymore.

Bird flu really wreaks havoc on your lungs, and breaks them down making them weaker. Someone like me with asthma has a better chance than someone without because:

1. Steriod inhalers increase the rate at which my lungs can regenerate themsevles, and your lungs can regenerate pretty well on their own anyway.

2. ive had a flu jab every year since i was 14. Which means the merged strain that can pass from human to human will meet a fair amount of resistance in my body.


Stuff to remember :- although people have died from bird-flu theres been no actual recording of it passing from one person to another.

Your not gonna catch bird-flu from a random bird, unless you go out specifically to poke a dead bird or possible lick its lungs, then your 90% safe.

If bird-flu does hit en mass in the south of england, then it was nice knowing some of you since my girlfriends garden (the house where im staying) has 2 avaries with 200 birds between them .

 

[Pottsy]

If a human contracts bird flue while suffering from normal influenza (Flu to me and you) then thats when it will spread from human to human because the two different strands will merge.

Could be a giant kick in the t1ts for us.

lol Bird flu has come and gone once b4 if none of u know.

It was the only disease around that did more damage than the Black death.

in London it killed about 2 million more people then the black death in the 1700's or sumit or 1800's can't rmb.

Scientists didn't know how to vaccinate it back then obviously, but it just went away, never came back untill now, but im sure they have the intelligence to brew up a vaccine this time b4 it massacres us again....

and i heard a story, which some people may know, it started in china....u know with their bird tradition thingy lol, they eat a lot of chickens and birds and stuff, hence y they wanted to change it to a dog tradition....kinda sick lol.

but anyway, back then, a man got the bird flu, merged with our original illnesses, which was said, he lived in a hotel, and it got around like our usual illnesses do, so he was sneezing and coughing etc, and in a hotel, thats very bad so it got around easy and fast, then he got on a flight for a holiday to Canada, died the next day when he landed, so thats alrdy 2 countries infected, people travel in and out of countries every day, so naturally it got everywhere pretty fast.

London was hit the hardest i believe...


But hey, as long no infected fkers land in Heathrow or Gatwick, im pretty ok where i am.....i hope lol, and as long as no1 from the North decide to take a trip to the South-East lol

 

[Soul]

lol Bird flu has come and gone once b4 if none of u know.

It was the only disease around that did more damage than the Black death.

in London it killed about 2 million more people then the black death in the 1700's or sumit or 1800's can't rmb.

Scientists didn't know how to vaccinate it back then obviously, but it just went away, never came back untill now, but im sure they have the intelligence to brew up a vaccine this time b4 it massacres us again....

and i heard a story, which some people may know, it started in china....u know with their bird tradition thingy lol, they eat a lot of chickens and birds and stuff, hence y they wanted to change it to a dog tradition....kinda sick lol.

but anyway, back then, a man got the bird flu, merged with our original illnesses, which was said, he lived in a hotel, and it got around like our usual illnesses do, so he was sneezing and coughing etc, and in a hotel, thats very bad so it got around easy and fast, then he got on a flight for a holiday to Canada, died the next day when he landed, so thats alrdy 2 countries infected, people travel in and out of countries every day, so naturally it got everywhere pretty fast.

London was hit the hardest i believe...


But hey, as long no infected fkers land in Heathrow or Gatwick, im pretty ok where i am.....i hope lol, and as long as no1 from the North decide to take a trip to the South-East lol

Same for me, You live like 2hours from me I think as I remember driving up near Reading with some friends. I'm not too fussed about any of this but it was interesting to read how others are reacting.