I don't think it does. It's just a sad attempt at an anti-meat campaign by PETA. Oh, those people who died from it? Who says it wasn't some other disease? I'm sure people would jump on the chance to blame it on "bird flu" just to scare people... What do other people make of this?
2007-07-03 17:21:40 · 11 answers · asked by Lycanthrope777 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
no there really is we have chicken house and we had to put signs up warning people of the dangers
2007-07-11 16:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by razorblade romance 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I can't imagine PETA wanting to sponsor hype for a disease that results in MASS CULLS of thousands of birds during a scare. Moreover, health officials already made it clear that if your dinner did have the flu, cooking it thoroughly would render the germs harmless. Loosen up your tin foil hat.
Yes, bird flu exists. Influenza virus can infect birds and mammals. Is it as dangerous as the media makes us think it is? No. Then what's the problem? It's because those people who happen to get it actually stand a serious chance of dying from it. Luckily, it doesn't often infect people.
The problem comes when the bird flu mutates to swine flu. Swine flu CAN infect humans, and it is highly lethal to humans. That is a much bigger problem and entirely feasible since it has happened before.
2007-07-03 17:25:33 · answer #2 · answered by Gumdrop Girl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I’ve been researching the H5N1 avian flu virus extensively for over two years and I’ve never run into PETA at all.
All of our influenza A viruses – including the seasonal flu that we get every year - begin in birds in Asia. Eventually these viruses mutate to become easily transmitted from person to person. Often this mutation takes place in pigs, which are unlucky enough to be able to pick up human viruses and bird viruses.
Hundreds of millions of birds have been culled in an attempt to stop the spread of infection. So I can’t see PETA or any other animal rights group wanting to make this up. Fear of bird flu makes people want to kill birds, not just refrain from eating them.
Right now many of the people who have been infected have had contact with birds, but there are cases of human-to-human infection and these cases are increasing.
When the virus mutates so that it can pass easily from person to person there will be a pandemic, and scientists who are watching the virus are seeing the virus acquiring the changes needed for that to happen.
Once a pandemic starts it would sweep from country to country quickly because of air travel.
Unfortunately the virus is killing over 60% of the people infected worldwide and 85% of the people infected in Indonesia die.
Officials in the U.S. are saying that 30% of us could become sick - others are saying that it could much higher.
Our “modern medical system” won’t be much help to us because we won’t have hospital beds, doctors, nurses, ventilators, or medicine for the vast majority of patients. Most patients will be cared for at home by family members because there will no other option.
Officials are saying that schools would be closed for up to 3 months and that people would be asked to remain in their homes during that time to reduce the number of infections.
If we want to eat during that time, we should have nonperishable food, water, baby food, pet food, and medicine.
We should be buying those things now because if everyone waits until a pandemic starts the store shelves will be empty.
2007-07-04 14:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by starlight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well since H5N1 isnt carried in meat, i doubt PETA has much to care about. H5N1 or the bird flu, must be transmitted to humans through contact with birds (chicken keepers etc.), it is mostly transmitted by inhaling infected dust or getting scratched etc. then once the human is infected, they in rare cases can infect other humans, the only reason that avian flu isnt as widespread, is because that human-human transmission is rare and is difficult for that strain of flu.
2007-07-04 00:49:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe that bird flu does exist. One of my mom's cousin's daughter. She killed one of her livestocks (chickens), cooked it, and ate it before she died a day later. It was an annoynamous death and the doctors said that it must be from something she ate. And that chicken was the last thing she ate..
2007-07-03 17:28:23 · answer #5 · answered by Soa's Fate~ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I answered a poll asking "who fears bird flu?" and I answered "not at all concerned"; as did many other poll takers. Its a media spin.
2007-07-08 12:55:28 · answer #6 · answered by Cinnamon girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it does, luv. I live in Arcadia California where it showed up first. We used to have the most beautiful crows here. They were huge. When I would walk across to the Santa Anita Mall they would just stand in the island, and watch me walk past. Then they started to die. You would see their bodies everywhere and the sanitation department would come and pick them up immediately. It was so sad. We did have one person come down with the Nile Virus and she survived.
It does exist, hun.
2007-07-11 17:18:00 · answer #7 · answered by Ding-Ding 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they dont exist it is just a name breeders made up so you will pay more $! teacup puppy=runt=sickly dog=huge vet bills!
2016-05-17 22:17:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pig flu also exist
2007-07-03 20:42:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yesss and it mostly in asia and it really dangerous so it does exist
2007-07-09 14:08:24 · answer #10 · answered by lil'latinoking 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋