[mdittmar]

This bird-flu thing is crock of crap,why all the stories?,Who's making money off of "Tamiflu"?,how many people have died from "H5N1 influenza virus"?

Inquiring minds want to know,and FR has the best minds.

[Fiddlstix]

This bird-flu thing is crock of crap,why all the stories?,Who's making money off of "Tamiflu"?,how many people have died from "H5N1 influenza virus"?

I dunno.....
The MSM?
Somehow.......

[Firefigher NC]

Media sensationalism. I guess it is possible for this pandemic and government should take some measures to prepare but we all know how the media blows things up. Remember SARS? Victims only have a 98% chance of surviving that deadly virus.

[xrp]

I wish the dimwits in DC would just do the right thing and outlaw the flu and even possibly outlaw death.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I'm gonna start crappin' on peoples' windshields and say the "bird flu" made me do it. It's gonna be fun, especially on those cars with the goofy lefty bumperstickers.

[Eastbound]

How come it's always the feds getting geared up to do something? Gets old. I'd like to see some stories that show the individual states are gearing up to do something for a change.

How about, 'California gearing up to survive a 9.0 quake.' Or, New Mexico gearing up to stop the massive influx of illegal aliens jumping the border.'

Or 'Louisiana gearing up to handle another Cat 5 Hurricane.' Or Wisconsin gearing up to gear down when gas pump prices reach the $5.00 per gallon mark.'

[Semper Paratus]

Early results tersting Tamiflu are showing it's not nearly as effective as first thought.

[snippy_about_it]

It is indeed being blown way out of hand. If you're a poultry farmer or plan on swimming in a pond with infected waterfowl then you should be careful, otherwise...don't panic. :-)

Link

[pinz-n-needlez]

I would think that regular hand washing would do as much to protect the population as a massive effort to create and distribute vaccinations.

They won't even be able to start production until people start dying, to find out what the mutation is.

In the meantime, eating well, adequate rest, fresh air and handwashing could reduce illness and deaths from regular old non-avian flu.

Good grief, how many people SURVIVED the 1918 flu without ANY special vaccinations???

Pinz

[Gritty]

This bird-flu thing is crock of crap,why all the stories?... Inquiring minds want to know,and FR has the best minds.

The inquiring minds at FR are way ahead of you by many months. Check out...

Avian Flu Surveillance Project

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

how many people have died from "H5N1 influenza virus"?

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed between 20 to 40 million people, worldwide. Approximately 675,000 Americans died of that flu. Recently, the 1918 flu was confirmed as an avian flu (done by DNA analysis of both old specimens and newly recovered frozen specimens of lung tissue of flu victims). So, that flu was an example of exactly what is feared now: an avian flu that mutated enough times to achieve human-to-human transmission. So that's how many people have died of a similar avian flu. Hope that answers your question.

[Semper Paratus]

Farrakahn is going to accuse the Administration of using the vaccine as cover to give the bird flu to black children.