Posted on 02/21/2005 3:09:17 PM PST by bitt
We actually already spread the avian strain that only impacts birds.
Here on DelMarVa poultry farms are immediately quarantined, no one on or off, and all birds are destroyed at the first sign of it.
It can be transfered from farm to farm on clothing, shoes, even vehicles.
My husband services the computers at several Perdue plants and his car is disinfected before he gets past a certain point both entering and leaving the grounds.
Again? Luckily I still have those 43 cases of spam left over from Y2K....
That is what made the Spanish flu different. It attacked mainly the healthy late teen early twenties. Wrecked havoc amongst the worlds military.
It is estimated the US lost about 675,000; total worldwide 20 to 40 million.
Source:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
Forgot to add to the above.
See my post #62. What do you mean we won't see it coming? They're telling us already. I worked in Seoul, Korea a few years ago. I love Korea, I love Seoul and I love the Korean people but things over there are not like the rest of the world...at least as we know it. And I'm sure they are horribly worse in China, Thailand and other Asian countries. At street level Seoul looks just about like any modern city. But when you go to the top of a 30 story building and can see what is going on from above, when you can see what is behind the walls and in the alleys, there is no doubt that it is a breeding ground for animal to human disease transmission.
Well...he's right ya know...
How do you know this? It seems to me that you would need to have be omniscient. Are you God?
and it would have happened so fast that nobody would even know what it was until after it was over.
You have this part nearly right, but you can't logically say that because it hasn't happened yet, it won't.
Human-to-human transmission of avian flu virus, if/when it occurs on a large scale, will be like all other virus spread. Coughing and sneezing puts aerosolized droplets in the air to be inhaled by people in the vicinity. Touching a contaminated surface, then your face, without disinfecting your hands first, will infect.
Some cases of human-to-human transmission have occurred in Asia, among close family members--brother to brother, daughter to mother, to aunt, if I recall what I read correctly.
So far, most people get it from infected birds, but the Avian flu virus can combine with other viruses--even other flu viruses when they both divide in the same cell and exchange DNA. This has almost surely occurred already, many times. Sometimes the resulting mutation is innocent, sometimes not. Eventually, a human-to-human virus will form that is easily contagious and quickly spread. This is where every flu virus that affects us comes from, and how it happens. It will be no different for Avian flu H5N1.
It's only a matter of time. Many millions of chickens in Asia have been destroyed in an effort to contain this deadly virus, but it has been around since 1997, and one of these years, maybe this one, it WILL spread.
It is his secret plan to solve the Social Security crises.Old people drawing S.S. will be hit the hardest[Sarcasm/off]
In short, it is present in virtually every Third World Society and it, along with other unsanitary practices should be the focus of First World attention. Unfortunately, the majority of such action is undertaken under the auspices of the UN and we know how miserably ineffective the UN is at anything save corruption.
bump for tuesday update
Thanks. I think it's time to start using those face masks when I leave the house......like Michael Jackson...he may of been on to something.
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