Birdflu in UK!!!

[Conker]

just saw this on ITV news... googled newsed it and found this:

http://www.itn.co.uk/news/index_1980378.html

well basically it isn't the deadly h5 n1 version of birdflu but a h7 strain that comes in a form similar to conjuctivitus (the thing where you get a load of pus and stuff coming out of your tearducts), basically this shows that the measures aren't good enough as bird flu has got to a human in only a few weeks... any1 could get h5 n1 now

thanks
p.s. i would have posted in news section, but only mods can do that :(

[Sudden Death]

huh? bird flu was in the UK when i got back from my holiday 3 weeks. I saw it on the new when i was at teh service station

i dont really care because its so hard to catch, u have to handle chickens, with no gloves then lick ur hand or something. Very hard.. theyre deciding whether 2 mutilize (spelling lol) it because that will make the H5N1 strain less deadly but easier to catch.

Only around 50 people have died from the H5N1 strain in Africa, its been there a few years. Thats nothing.. Its just if it spreads human 2 human

[Conker]

huh? bird flu was in the UK when i got back from my holiday 3 weeks. I saw it on the new when i was at teh service station

yeah in a bird, that died from it, not a human though, this is the first human case

Only around 50 people have died from the H5N1 strain in Africa, its been there a few years. Thats nothing.. Its just if it spreads human 2 human

i think you mean asia... and like you said its only really serious if it evolves so it can be passed from human to human... then it could spread in days and hundreds could have it in weeks

[Sudden Death]

yeah in a bird, that died from it, not a human though, this is the first human case ahh yeah thats the one :) thanks..


i think you mean asia... and like you said its only really serious if it evolves so it can be passed from human to human... then it could spread in days and hundreds could have it in weeks Yep, i meant asia.. lol.. If it does evolve so that it can spread human 2 human then it will be mutilized so that its not deadly but yup it could get serious i guess.. :X

[Conker]

wtf is mutilized? you mean immunize??? with tamiflu?

[luck777jojo]

I think he means mutate

[scruie]

Scientist think the Great Spanish Flu Pandemic of the early 1900s was caused by a version of bird flu mutating to the human form - read that from New Scientist a few months back. Maybe we could have another pandemic...


Cure is simple in the UK, just slap a load of lemsip into lake Windermere. Jobs a gud'n

[C-X]

i think stop eating birds will solve ur problem :P
dont die suddendeath!

[Sudden Death]

I think he means mutate u think right :) ty

dont die suddendeath! lol my next door neighbour runs a chicken factory..hmm..

[C-X]

lol my next door neighbour runs a chicken factory..hmm..
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when there was risk for birdflu here, i ate birds every damn day ;o

Great Spanish Flu Pandemic of the early 1900s
never heard of that :x

[Virtuosofriend]

Sorry guys but after all these months hearing about this flu and the whole incidents happened around Europe,even here,i believe the whole thing is a hoax.
I havent stopped eat birds, like chicken ,turkey etc, and i am fine.
I dont intend to touch a live bird so i think i am pretty much covered.

[Sudden Death]

hi vf :ponder:

hoax? lol dont think so.. maybe but i dont think so, its spreading fast because its just so hard 2 stop birds getting 2 different countries.
I havent stopped eat birds, like chicken ,turkey etc, and i am fine.
I dont intend to touch a live bird so i think i am pretty much covered. same with me, its just when it stards 2 spread human-human that it could be bad :x

[tdlrali]

well, if it spreads from human to human, you could always stop eating humans ...

[Conker]

i think stop eating birds will solve ur problem

no, doesn't matter, as long as it is cooked properly you can't get it because all the bacteria will be dead


well, if it spreads from human to human, you could always stop eating humans ...

like the logic :P

[scruie]

Cannot believe you haven't heard of the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 C-X, don't they teach you anything in school?

It took more lives than WWI; killing nearly a quarter of the World's population at that time. It's estimated that in the UK over 200,000 ppl died, in France to twice as many and 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war.

@ conker it's a virus not bacterium.

[tdlrali]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu_pandemic
virus was H1N1, now it's H5N1 which sound a hell of a lot more dangerous! (j/k)

[ZenChicken]

i bet you that Bird flue is going to be the next world pandemic.

[Conker]

@ conker it's a virus not bacterium.
woops, thanks for noting the mistake... but cba changing it, you can if you want :P
i bet you that Bird flue is going to be the next world pandemic.
omg! no.... i haven't heard about that, it hasn't been mentioned on the television, in newspapers or on the internet even once.... i dont believe you seriously post helpful things, every1 knows that, that is why this thread was started and that the government and people are all panicking

[Gn3rKiLL]

dont worry our clever old eggheaded scientist will found a cure ( i hope )

but there is a nother way of making sure you dont get bird flu lock your self in a safe and live on nothing but crisps :) :) :) :)

[Conker]

but there is a nother way of making sure you dont get bird flu lock your self in a safe and live on nothing but crisps

keep it serious please... birdflu is an important and scary subject you do realise

your plan has 1 flaw, what do you do when you run out of crisps (which aren't that nice anyway and would go off after a couple of months)

[tdlrali]

conker, chill.... you can get stomach cancer (or whatever it's called) from worrying too much. i'll worry about it when half the people in my street die, before that i'm just gonna think the media is trying to make money, just like with J2K

[Conker]

how am i worrying... :confused:

i'm just saying that a case of birdflu has come to the uk, and i decided to tell all teh uk people here if they are unaware

[Sudden Death]

and its heading 4 teh usa :bescared:

it will be a while it spreads just make the most of ur life until then when ur prolly gonna die :cry:

[Gn3rKiLL]

conker, chill.... you can get stomach cancer (or whatever it's called) from worrying too much. i'll worry about it when half the people in my street die, before that i'm just gonna think the media is trying to make money, just like with J2K


i totally agree with him conker no1 died yet so dont take this seriously :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[tdlrali]

no1 died?? omg, when?

[scruie]

We've had less than half a dozen reported cases of bird flu; first was a small Scottish town few weeks back latest was in Norfolk last week and in all cases the infected animals were destroyed. I highly doubt it will get to epidemic proportions - the media will make it a bigger scare than it ever will be.

[Echo]

Even the H5N1 still has way to go...Its not a direct jump to humans. The knowledge on why It travels to some and not to others is unsolved. Still alot not known about this virus and its capabiltys.

And i mean mutation is a process thats pure random. This mutation could take weeks, Or like the virus it self years to surface.

I belive in the survival gene :) Just nature doing its usual natural selection in a different way.
I believe where so scared becuase of the knowledge we have. Weve lost the primal instinct that tells us this happens and its normal.

Sorry bout the long post..Just got into a typing mood - gotta stop smoking :)

[bigbang]

I believe this virus will go and a new one will come, it's a endless circle. the problem is the more our world grows, the faster we will see new viruses coming.

[thunderstorms]

Blah, why did I have to move to a place that's supposedly in more danger this year...

So right now it can't pass to humans? Or is it just difficult to be passed on to us? Hmm those scientists better find a solution before it mutates...