Stupid birds..
Posted on 04/08/2006 5:20:54 PM PDT by blam
oh, the sky is falling, blah, blah, blah . . .
Cat flu. That would be nice.
No word on whether the cat had the virus, but the tire tracks might be a hint.
Cat flu might be a good thing.
Stupid birds..
Great.
First I can't eat chicken, now I can't eat cats...
I knew the cat haters would love this thread.
Hay, slings baby, alert the troops.
LOL
"...including 147 tigers who died in a Thai zoo after eating infected chicken."
147 Tigers? In ONE zoo? In Thailand, which has 304 people per square mile? (America has 76 per square mile.) Yikes. We have TWO tigers at our zoo.
This hysteria reminds me of how we were all going to die from West Nile Virus a few years back, and them Lyme Disease from Deer Ticks, prior to that.
Have we topped 100 human deaths in this world-wide bird flu "epidemic" yet?
March 15, 2006
Bird flu cases have been discovered along the Caspian Sea coast
A stray dog has died of bird flu in the Caspian nation of Azerbaijan, health officials have said - thought to be the first time the virus has killed a dog.
Azerbaijan reported its first three human deaths from bird flu on Monday.
The World Health Organization has yet to confirm bird flu caused the human deaths, but said the US Navy lab that carried out the tests was reliable.
The deaths of the three young Azeri women would take the WHO total for human deaths from bird flu to 101.
There have been no confirmed cases of one person passing the virus to another. Most people who have contracted it are thought to have been in close contact with domestic poultry.
But scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that can pass from person to person.
Germany has reported at least three cat deaths from bird flu, which has been spreading from South-East Asia since 2003.
Quarantine
The deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was discovered in migratory bird flocks in Azerbaijan last month.
The government has taken measures to quarantine the two regions where the women died, with entry and exit to their villages being controlled.
Cars were being disinfected and domestic poultry was being confined, Reuters news agency reported.
The dog that died was found in the capital Baku on 9 March, health officials said.
Good thing Viking Kitties subsist on a diet made up completely of DUmmies and trolls.
***This hysteria reminds me of how we were all going to die from West Nile Virus a few years back, and them Lyme Disease from Deer Ticks, prior to that. ***
One must not forget the SWINE FLU panic of 1977! More people died standing in line for the shots than from the swine flu. I think only ONE man contracted swine flu from his pigs. He was immediatly overcome by reporters looking for a scoop!
catflu?....ghesundtheit
"YOU @#$%^!S HEARD THE LADY! ACT ALERT, @#$%^S!"
Keeping the cat indoors as always.
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