Bird Flu
The latest news is about 50,000 British people are going to die. However, I've also heard from a Government Minister that we're stockpiling the treatment for bird flu, so maybe we won't all die. I've also heard that the virus currently seen in Turkey and Romania can't travel from birds to humans, so what are we worrying about? And just what is the official story?
The other thing is why can't we stop it spreading? It can't be that hard to stop the transportation of chickens from one country to another. Or are we going to encounter the same problems that we did with foot and mouth or BSE? The good news is that we did eventually see these off. BSE took a while, and Turkey can look forward to not having the French buy their chickens, and Foot and Mouth, despite the Labour cock-up, was eventually sorted.
So, apparently we're going to get this virus, or not.
But didn't we think that we were all going to get Ebola not so long ago?
The other thing is why can't we stop it spreading? It can't be that hard to stop the transportation of chickens from one country to another. Or are we going to encounter the same problems that we did with foot and mouth or BSE? The good news is that we did eventually see these off. BSE took a while, and Turkey can look forward to not having the French buy their chickens, and Foot and Mouth, despite the Labour cock-up, was eventually sorted.
So, apparently we're going to get this virus, or not.
But didn't we think that we were all going to get Ebola not so long ago?
posted by CJM | 3:41 PM
3 Comments:
apparently it's all very up in the air.
We can't stop it spreading because we can't stop birds migrating: it's not just a disease caught by chickens, but also by wild birds.
The virus can travel from birds to humans in some places: that's why some people have already got it. The influenza virus is one that mutates a lot. What they are worried about is that the virus will mutate that it can travel between humans as well as between birds and humans.
And, in answer to your first point, medicines aren't always effective, and diseases develop resistance to them.
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