World on verge of deadly pandemic, U.S. official says

Associated Press ^ | 2/20/05 | Associated Press

[bitt]

ping your lists, if you think....

[Nitro]

So, my death will taste like chicken?

[My Favorite Headache]

All I know is I have heard about 10 people tell me in the last 30 days about gallbladders being taken out all of a sudden with hardly a single sign of a problem and then bam. Not saying it is related to anything...just odd. Not to mention myself having gallstones...but im goin the eastern medicine route. Western Medicine gives me the creeps.

[My Favorite Headache]

[leadpenny]

Gaia's gettin' angry!

[djf]

I try to keep my ear to the ground when it comes to emerging diseases.

This one could be bad. Very, very bad.

[MarkT]

Capture some of those damn birds and send them to: China. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia...let them work out the scientific details about how to prevent any disease they transmit...

[Cornpone]

My grandmother used to tell me about 1918. She would try to help as best should could. The sick were quarantined in their homes where we lived. Those who had the courage would cook meals for them and leave the food and buckets of water on their porches. I think she said they burned the hospital after it was over. Of course back then that wasn’t unusual.

[drt1]

Frightening but, unfortunately, inevitable. Nature's unlimited power to transform and the virtually unlimited increase in vectors for propagating the spread of these diseases will, IMO, make the next Pandemic among the worst, if not the worst, in human history.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[N. Theknow]

People are being warned to look for symptoms:

Feathery tickle in the throat
Fowl taste in the mouth,
Sudden change in attitude or feeling down in the mouth,
or just not giving a cluck.

[cocoapuff]

The problem is that they could do the same to us before we do it to them.

[djf]

Don't need to capture them. Birds are highly migratory creatures. This could spread worldwide in six months, easy.

Of course the fact that it kills alot of birds does put a crimp in them flying somewhere.

But like most other diseases, there are bound to be some animals that become carriers. Infected, but immune to the symptoms.

[Grut]

Could be grim. Could be appropriations time, too.

[leadpenny]

Sounds like a Fluster Cluck to me.

[litehaus]

So what happened to the AIDS in Africa? Thought THAT was supposed to be OUR problem.....

[MaryFromMichigan]

We're all gonna die!!!!
®™Lazamataz

[Nitro]

That sounds like my yesterday.......

now you know why I always took the veal!

[Fzob]

Could be grim. Could be appropriations time, too.

My first thought as well.