Are you ready for the Bird Flu?

Question

So we've got it....how have we got it?...Well like normal no-one knows....a secure poultry building with birds that have never seen the outside world not had any contact with other birds catches it....What hope have we got and how many more cases are there and how long have they known about it before breaking the news this morning?

Answer 1

*a secure poultry building with birds that have never seen the outside world*

Strange that this has happened when there are no migrating species about. Does anyone else suspect the Animal Right terrorists or other political extremists might have had a hand in this? Bernard Mathews is the most prominent turkey farmer in the country( remember his booti'ful ad campaign). And Turkey farming is probably the most intensive form of "agribusiness" which the bunny huggers hate. Of course these turkeys were due on our tables at Easter, so this would be the optimum time to sabotage things

This could cause real economic problems like foot & mouth. However in order to effect humans the virus will have to combine with the human flu virus which would involve more coincidences than a light opera. so not the end of civilisation.....for now.

Answer 2

There has been too much scare-mongering about this - remember the boy who cried wolf? The same happened over the SARS outbreak and what happened? Like a bad firework, it went fizzle, fizzle, pop!

The Avian Flu (Bird Flu if you prefer) virus has to go through some serious mutations to become communicable to any other animal. And, in the absence of indigenous primates, it would have to be communicable to pigs (yes, pigs - they are the only non-primate with a physiology close enough to our own to be mutually compatible) first.

The answer to your question is birds are birds - they don't have passports and can fly wherever they like and s**t wherever they like (viruses can be passed along that way & it only takes 1 new infection to spread it). How long have they known about it being in this country? I'd imagine since they found the infected swans several months ago (it WAS reported in the media). How many more cases? Why don't we wait & see, instead of automatically assuming the worst?

What the hell has happened to this country? We seem to have turned into a nation of pessimists (nobody seems to be really happy unless doom, gloom, fire & brimstone are imminent) as opposed to the optimists of ago.

So, a poultry farm is short a few Christmas turkeys - never mind, there's a whole nation of 'em just waiting for the slaughter.....

Answer 3

do not get your shorts in a knot. The chook flu gained't get to North u . s . a .. What does status in line ought to do with the avian flu???....quiet down!! Oh yeah, you're asking contained in the incorrect type

Answer 4

Stay away from the birds

Answer 5

Did you hear on sky news when the reporter referred to it as aviation flu?

Answer 6

Say what? You ARE kidding, right? You've just ruined my peaceful Saturday if this is true. I don't feel like buliding an underground shelter today.

You're wrong, genius. It hasn't mutated yet
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16945777/

Answer 7

I do not think it is worth worrying I am ready to die if that is what is coming. but I do not think ?I am likely to catch it in the uk more possible but not very likely when I visit pakistan soon.

Answer 8

No im certainly not happy about it as i work in asda on the hot chicken counter!

Answer 9

I don't eat meat but I do worrie about my cats who kill birds and sometimes eat them, I don't think cats can get it but I still worrie

Answer 10

I've had Grouse flu with drinking too much whiskey