Bird Flu Comes Back Like Bad Chicken
Posted by Slobokan @ 00:48 · 132 words · print
Eek! It's the bird flu again!!!
Just when you thought you could scratch bird flu off your list of things to worry about in 2009, the deadly H5N1 virus has resurfaced in poultry in Hong Kong for the first time in six years, reinforcing warnings that the threat of a human pandemic isn't over.
India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and mainland China also experienced new outbreaks in December. During the same period, four new human cases — in Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia — were reported to the World Health Organization. A 16-year-old girl in Egypt and a 2-year-old girl in Indonesia have died.
If I didn't know better, I might think the media is getting ready to shift our focus to the threat of an avian flu human pandemic to get our minds off other important things.
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Posted by Chris
January 5, 2009 @ 13:33
Yep, agreed, I thought the bird flu was going to wipe us out in 2005, I remember getting all kinds of email warnings on it.