What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

BRG25

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I was flipping through a Newsweek last night and read an article about the Bird Flu. I found the whole tone of the article very disturbing, however maybe that's just Newsweek. Opinions?
 

Vlad D Impeller

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

Now that there bird flu is real scary, probably in the same category as WMD's.
 

ndemge

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Last year's flu Vacine "shortage"
 

aspeck

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

Much addo about nothing! It is unbelievable that so much is being made about a disease that has been able to move from birds to humans, in rare cases and where people have repeated and prolonged exposure to the birds, but never, ever, not even once, has it mutated to a form that can be transfered from person to person.<br /><br />A concern, yes. A worry, only because the scientists that want funding for further research have blown it up to the media and the media took the bait, ran with it, and the research labs set the hook!
 

Haut Medoc

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

"Geeha" is gonna pi$$ away $7 billion on flu stuff, so it must be really serious....JK
 

Elmer Fudge

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

All influenza viruses are derived from avian.
 

BoatBuoy

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Originally posted by J.kopec:<br /> "Geeha" is gonna pi$$ away $7 billion on flu stuff, so it must be really serious....JK
All is not lost. As usual, follow the money. <br /><br />Tamiflu is not a bird flu vaccine, but has an antiviral property which may be effective against bird flu. Consequently, it is in great supply right now. Tamiflu is produced by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, however, Roche doesn't own the intellictual property rights of Tamiflu. Those are owned by Gilead Sciences, Inc. Prior to being named to his current position, the Chairman of Gilead was none other than Donald Rumsfeld.<br /><br />Just an observation.
 

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

Big scam to sell drugs.. make sure you get your other Flu shots too! ;)
 

LubeDude

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

Im more worried about "Bass Flu", and I have it bad. The symptoms are:<br /><br />Overbuying plastic baits on Ebay.<br /><br />Having way more fishing poles that you will ever need but cant bring yourself to sell any.<br /><br />Having tackle boxes on every shelf available.<br /><br />Setting the hook in your dreams and hitting yourself in the face.
 

PW2

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There's nothing like a little abject fear to distract attention from current problems.
 

SS MAYFLOAT

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What a way to sell stock! I hope that it is just a scam. If not, things will get ugly for sure if it mutates.
 

stan_deezy

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Aspeck, go to the top of the class and have twenty gold stars and a box of candy for giving the correct answer:<br /><br /> It is all about funding research grants <br /><br /><br />It's that time of year when academics start looking for where the next research grant is coming from..........accchhhhoooo! :p
 

dolluper

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Re: What's your opinion of the Bird Flu?

It's going to do wonders for Cornal Turkey{KFC} sales just like mad cow did for beef,soon the only thing that will be safe will be unsprayed lawn grass and lettuce Yhawk!!!! :eek: :D
 
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