[The Red Zone]

Hate to break this to you but every flu season we have thousands of dead. Generally around 20K. A bird flu pandemic could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

But wouldn't you also expect to find a lot of dead birds in the area?

[geopyg]

From post 17:

----I remember listening to Art Bell a few weeks ago, and he had someone on the phone talking about dead birds in Toronto, and didn't know what was causing it. Could it be the Bird Flu??----


However, if that really is the case then it's good news (sort of). Much better that it still has to go from birds to humans (not as many tears except for the farmers when you toss a few million chickens into a pit).

When we stop seeing dead birds and only dead humans (as in person to person transmission) is when we need to worry. Conservative estimates say 5 to 10 million dead. Others estimate 50 to 100 million dead (worldwide).

[Kozak]

But wouldn't you also expect to find a lot of dead birds in the area?

Not necessarily. The big worry is about mutation to human to human transmission. What if that occurred in say Asia, and then a person infected traveled to Canuckistan? Most of us don't have daily contact with live birds.