Severe bird flu hits Europe

Reuters via The Straights Times ^ | Saturday, April 19, 2003 | Reuters

[InShanghai]

SARS is not flu.

As I stated in my first post:

It's not like SARS, but I'm sure the medical community will have a heck of a time trying to sort out people with SARS and the flu.

[EggsAckley]

Ah,..........."An Exaltation of Larks," by James Lipton. One of my very favorites. See Amazon for excerpts.

[Mister Baredog]

The Netherlands has been grappling to contain the month-long outbreak that has spilled into Belgium and is approaching Germany

This outbreak is probably due to the excessive amounts of "crow" being eaten lately in their populations.

[EggsAckley]

[Consort]

Collective Nouns, Terms of Venery, Nouns of Assemblage.

[Domestic Church]

We usually have hundreds of blackbirds and crows around this farmland but this past winter there were few compared to past winters. But our songbirds have returned this spring so they escaped the west nile bug.

[Domestic Church]

Isn't The Netherlands where they just exposed the monkeys to SARS in order to certify this coronavirus was indeed causing SARS? What are the odds they would in a matter of days have this new avian flu ?!

[CathyRyan]

Dr. David L. Heymann, executive director in charge of communicable diseases for W.H.O., said the agency "is 99 percent sure" that SARS is caused by the new coronavirus based on the monkey experiments in the Netherlands. Experiments on animals are necessary because the lack of an effective treatment for SARS and the relatively high death rate make it unethical to conduct such experiments on humans.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894105/posts

I did a quick check of ProMED and it looks like they have been dealing with bird flu since the beginning of March.

[per loin]

A fine site. Thanks. Only obvious one missing was "A Confedacy of Dunces".

[Mister Baredog]

Are those Iraqi artifacts on your homepage?(humor)

[per loin]

Well thanks a lot. I had thought I had this week's book buying budget in order, and then you hatch this on me.

[Consort]

And a giggle of girls and a rascal of boys. There are tons of funny collective nouns out there.

[EggsAckley]

Not "real" Iraqi artifacts, just the outpouring of the junk on my workbench. Detritus R Us!

[EggsAckley]

One of my favorite ones is one I made up:

"A cesspool of churls."

[Consort]

"A distortion of journalists"

[EggsAckley]

"A departure of pultroons."


This is a fun game. We do it all the time.

</;o)

[Consort]

"A scoop of reporters"

[EggsAckley]

"A strain of tenors."

"A shriek of sopranos."

[EggsAckley]

"A swoon of Southern Belles."

[Consort]

"A litany of Goths"