A short time ago we were terrified! Now you hear nothing....what's the deal?
2007-07-06 14:45:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
we only worry about the bird flue on a slow news day.
2007-07-06 14:54:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like most things in the news, that was a "fad", in my opinion of course. Fads can be good or bad. I think when scientists found out about the bird flu spreading a little more in avian species than usual, the media went crazy over the discovery. There was also the fact that a person got sick from bird flu, which never happened before.
2007-07-06 21:59:33 · answer #2 · answered by Winged Genius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every year or two, usually around February, the government and media come up with some new potential pandemic to whip the Chicken Little crowd into a frenzy. The government hands out enormous sums of money to favored businesses and creates a bunch of jobs for their cronies. Then, when the threat loses its effectiveness, they just put it on the shelf with SARS, the swine flu, type A flu, AIDS and dozens of others over the years.
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2007-07-07 01:40:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Flu virus changes every year so we will see another flu virus.
The problem with the bird flu is that it was too likely to jump the species barrier. Bird flu is still out there and it could hit again, but as time passes it is less likely to be a problem. Still something like it could come up again.
One theory has it that AIDS started in African swine and jumped the species barrier and look how bad that turned out to be.
2007-07-06 21:50:48 · answer #4 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the fact that it jumped from chickens to humans is a scientific concern but to be crass more people die from drunk driving, pneumonia and host of other reasons compared to 124 worldwide since 2003.
2007-07-07 05:21:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People kept saying watch out, it might come out any time. Watch out! Watch out!
It never came and we got tired and went home.
2007-07-06 22:12:28 · answer #6 · answered by eric l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because there are more important things going on, paris hilton, the weather and that sort of stuff....
2007-07-06 22:42:22 · answer #7 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just be careful of diseases, you'll never know what's coming. For now, just relax
2007-07-07 05:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's almost like we forgot about it like the 'anthrax attacks'.
2007-07-06 21:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's not really a case anymore, but for those of u that have it... sux
2007-07-06 22:27:38 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋