So the Bird Flu IS the H5N1 strain - those poor farmers............

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(Aplogies if this has already got a thread )

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It's just one thing after another, Foot and Mouth, Bird Flu etc etc

Why? Almost all of the human deaths have occured where people have been in CLOSE contact with the infected birds.

And 206 deaths, 335 people infected in total since 2003 GLOBALLY is really a TINY number of people. (offical WHO figures)

Especially as more people die from HUMAN "winter" Flu in the EVERY YEAR.......in the UK ALONE!

here you go - some official figures on flu/deaths in the UK

"In the winter of 2005/06 (December to March) there were an estimated 25,700 more deaths in England and Wales compared to levels in the non-winter period"

Shall find the offical Influenza ((Human) stats after I've sorted the DS's.

We're just outside the zone for shutting birds indoors - I really hope we don't have to do this as the only place we have for our chooks is inside the kids' playhouse....maybe I should do it anyway, I just don't know

you know even TOP estimates of the "possible" deaths from a bird flu pandemic (150 million) isn't enough to "wipe out all of humanity).

Current estimates of world population are 6.6 BILLION

that's 6,600,000,000

if my maths is correct although a STAGGERING large potential death toll it would only wipe out 0.02% of the world population. So humanity would still be safe.

And they've been talking of it mutating since 1997 (first case of Avian H5N1 was in 1996) when the first human deaths occured.