The Bird Flu

[Domed]

Have any of you heard of the burd flu? There are at least 15 different types of avian influenza that routinely infect birds around the world. The current outbreak is caused by a strain known as H5N1, which is highly contagious among birds and rapidly fatal. Unlike many other strains of avian influenza, it can be transmitted to humans, causing severe illness and death.The virus has been spreading in the world,making victims in china,asia,parts of europe,has been spreading in Romania from the laste months of last year,inducing quarantine and 2 victims in Turcia on january 1 and 5.People are taking actions and the virus appears to be spreading without stop.What do u think of this new threat? (the bird flu has made many victimes in spain in the 1919.

 

[Bob27]

Thats on the news here in Australia every so often. There was a case where an Asian/Europian flew to Australia, and when going through customs showed symptoms of the Bird Flu.

 

[Shados]

When my maths teacher was coming back from the school's China trip customs thought she had the bird flu and men in white coats (No joke) took her away into a quarantined lab, it turned out she only had asian flu so it never made headlines. It was still hell funny though.

P.S. @ Bob27 You're from Australia? So am I, I live in Melbourne.

 

[Bob27]

yea I live in Brisbane. Went for a holiday to Melbourne a few weeks ago. All my sister wanted to do is go on a tram :roll:

 

[Shados]

All my sister wanted to do is go on a tram :roll:

ROFL, why did she want to use our public transport system so much? :?:

 

[Domed]

Here in Romania in the southern part the bird flu has appeared....but not at humans only birds started dying here and there and they Quarantined the area and killed all birds tehre after that burned them for being safe..but still nothing is certain...the virus may still spread.

 

[Bob27]

All my sister wanted to do is go on a tram :roll:

ROFL, why did she want to use our public transport system so much? :?:

I don't no... just something she really wanted to do. Shes only nine and you cn expect little children to want to do these things.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

No bird flu here... Yet :?

 

[Shados]

All my sister wanted to do is go on a tram :roll:

ROFL, why did she want to use our public transport system so much? :?:

I don't no... just something she really wanted to do. Shes only nine and you cn expect little children to want to do these things.

Haha, my two year old sister doesn't want to do anything that weird. Though my friends 7 year old sister is weird city :? , *shivers in horror*.

Still, I'm not too worried about the bird flu, with research into genetics advancing everyday there's a good chance it will soon be possible to create purely synthetic anti-bodies with a built-in resistance to the bird flu.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

thing about bird flu is that if it mutates into an airborne human strand were all fucked. its predicted that 87% of people die if they get it.

 

[Dork990]

We are so screwed!
Well...lets start lootin'

 

[v3ck]

I'll take some of those synthetic antibodies and laugh at the rest of you.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

antibodies dont affect viruses, they affect bacteria.

 

[Dork990]

Antibodies affect anything "evil" in your body. Not splinters though....



(if not Im gonna kill.....srry sue THEN kill my biology teacher)

 

[GST_Nemisis]

well there is a type of antibody called IgG which i know can affect viruses, but this is mainly found protecting growing babies inside the mother.

 

[Dork990]

See? Told ya! Maybe not "useable" to uuhh... born people but they do exist!