bird-flu

[SEXY67]

the bird flu has killed 60 people in aisa has enyone thought about if it comes to england if it do it is susspected 2 kill 50 thousand people!!!

[atolhurst]

I may be wrong but didn't all the people who had it in asia, get it from birds?

The reference to 50,000 dying in Britain is if the virus mutates into a strain that can be passed from person to person (like normal flu), especially since winter is approaching. I read that problems will arise if someone gets bird flu who also has human flu virus in their system so that the two virus's mutate and a new virus (one that passes person to person) is created.

[qapmoc]

The thing about H5N1 virus is not how many people have died as an absolute number, after all 60 is nothing in real terms. The real problem is how many who caught it compared to those actually died, on that basis it is about 30,000 per 100,000 who caught it died. this is not very good odds compared to a 'normal' influenza where the death rate might be 60 per 100,000

[Grunty]

61 people have died in 2 years. The number is put into perspective by the 9,000 who die every day because they have no clean water and the 14,000 who die every day because of cigarette smoking.

[tomd]

But what about if the black plague came back? Sky News isn't predicting the apocalypse with that one, but I might tip them off.

[hopalong]

As long as it stays out of Scotland I wont be concerned

[bloodycheap]

keep away from the birds...............the feathery variety.