Bird Flu

[the dude]

Bird flu isn't spread from eating birds. The virus infects birds first, and is non virulent to humans in it's initial phase. After infecting tens of thousands, if not millions of birds, the virus can mutate, as a function of it's reproductive cycle, becoming a strain that can infect humans. This occurs along migration routes and first appears in countries where humans live and work closely with foul exposed to the virus. Typically, Asia is the initial source for the human starin because many people live in close proximity to domesticated foul. The virus enters humans as an airborn pathogen, kicked up in dust from avian excretions. This is typical of every year's flu cycle. The problem this year is that a previously unknown strain has been found for which we have no antibodies and no flu shot to help produce antibodies. Should this strain mutate and infect humans, then a pandemic could result.

Yeah, ...well, that's just, like, your opinion, man

[chefmike]

war-monger and draft-dodger aka chickenhawk...shrubya, cheney, rush, et al

[chefmike]

shrubya's real concern...

[chefmike]

Get a life, boring boy. Get a pick-up truck, like me. Maybe then you could pick up your Tgurl cousins and get laid for a change. Have you ever been laid?

speakin of gettin laid...perhaps if we were talking about the sheep flu, you might be a bit more concerned...you should have listened to yourdaddy, quit that job at the gas station, courted a real gal (maybe even one you're not related to), then these bird flu worries might not remind you of your livestock issues...

[yourdaddy]

You're making a fool of yourself Mike. You're just another geek wanna be.

[chefmike]

these witty retorts of yours are too much...no mas...LMFAO!!

[Evilhomer]

'YAWN' I laugh at the Bird Flu ... Its justlike the ebola scare and the Anthrax scare when anyone that saw white powder had a nervous breakdown...what did like 4 people die ..Pppfffsstt... you have a better chance of getting killed by a dog then dying from the Bird flu



And dude your posts are moronic at best....enough already ...

[chefmike]

and who are you talkin to?

[Felicia Katt]

yeah, ...well, that's just, like, your opinion, man

here are the facts about bird flu from the CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/facts.htm

and about the relative lack of risks from eating poultry from the World Health Organization

"To date there is no epidemiological evidencethat people have been infected through consumption of well-cooked contaminated poultry meat.
From the above, it can be concluded that well cooked poultry meat is safe but handling of frozen or thawed raw poultry meat before cooking can be hazardous if good hygienic practices are not observed"

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/fs_man...a_Dec04_en.pdf

FK

[Evilhomer]

That would be you