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bird flu could........ so bloody angry at all the scare mongering

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shellybelly · 09/04/2006 19:47

hope I spelt mongering right, I have just read reports about how bird flu could kill 100,000 children, yes people need to be aware of all the risks etc and plans may well need to be put in place for the risk of it spreading to humans but I feel that all of reports in the news will be unduly scaring people/parents witless. Its almost as if its going to happen tho reports AGAIN suggest the chance of it mutating is really low, yes its a scary thought but until anything actually happens i wish they would stop all of the ifs and coulds

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spacedonkey · 09/04/2006 19:48

lol I read that too - but it was in News of the World so I immediately discounted it!

expatinscotland · 09/04/2006 19:50

it was in the Sunday Times, too. Hardly News of the World material, but still scaremongering. 1000 birds tested. Only one positive for H5N1.

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LittleMerlin · 09/04/2006 20:42

i thought that too - when it was on the early evening news. Nice to know that there is some sort of plan if bitrd flu happens, but FGS they've only found one bird so I think it's a bit OTT.

LittleMerlin · 09/04/2006 20:42

that was 'bird' flu obviously.

intergalacticwalrus · 09/04/2006 20:46

I bet these peole who worry unduly about it are the same idiots that walk into the road without looking.

Far more risk of being run over by a bus than contracting bird flu.

ThePrisoner · 09/04/2006 23:09

We just saw the "100,000 children could die" on the late news. Dh says he thinks they did this sort of thing when the BSE crisis and SARS virus were big news. They kept saying, "worst case scenario" ... if it hasn't happened in all the other countries where bird flu is more prevalent, what makes us so special?

Pixiefish · 09/04/2006 23:32

Prisoner- the longer its around and the more times it crosses from bird to human the greater the chance that it'll mutate. that's my take on it.

I agree with the OP though that there's a lot of scaremongering. I for one am petrified of it mutating and have been scared for the last year ever since the daily mail started the story off

Chandra · 09/04/2006 23:38

And there are no indications that the flu will attack children. Last flu outbreak attacked primarily twenty-thirty years old epeopl, previous one it was the elderly.

Pixel · 09/04/2006 23:57

I read a piece in the paper a couple of weeks ago where a lady was interviewed who runs a swan sanctuary. She has a document from years ago about the very same virus but it didn't even make the papers then and nothing happened. I wish I'd kept the article now. Anyway, she's more worried about all the hype than she is about the risk of her swans getting bird flu and I tend to agree. How many other 'plagues' have supposedly been about to finish us all off in the past few years?

Chandra · 10/04/2006 00:01

The Millenium bug? Grin

JanH · 10/04/2006 00:05

Somebody posted on another bird flu thread on here that H5N1 has been found in dead birds in this country before, but nobody made a huge fuss at the time. (And anyway dead wild birds aren't usually routinely tested for anything so how do we know how common it might be?)

I suppose circs are different in that some humans have died from it this time, but then again how do we know that didn't happen before too?

Skribble · 10/04/2006 00:18

I was on the SARS standby crew at work. We had to attend any first aid and if first aid thought it was SARS set up a cordon and identify possible contacts, PMSL now, but we were supposed to take it very serious at the time.

Chandra · 10/04/2006 00:21

Where were you woking Skribble? Hong Kong?

Skribble · 10/04/2006 00:26

No a place with lots of foreign delegates, including lots of medical ones.

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