Bird Flu Reaches Africa, Europe

[herpguy]

Some more articles about the H5N1 bird flu:

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/ap_060217_bird_flu.html

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ap_060213_flu_europe.html

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ap_060208_flu_africa.html

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ap_050223_flu_warning.html

 

These articles have convinced me to become worried. I hope the U.S. will have some sort of pandemic plan before the virus changes to allow itself to transfer from one person to another.

[silkworm]

I hope the U.S. will have some sort of pandemic plan before the virus changes to allow itself to transfer from one person to another.

 

Unfortunately, America can't handle this right now because an incompetent regime which has a knack for ruining government agencies in in power. Hopefully, it doesn't get here until 2009 so we'll have a chance.

 

I just ran into this and was getting ready to post it. I'm becomming concerned too.

[tejaswini]

bird flu reached india as well.3 human cases have alredy been reported. this thing is spreading fast.why is there no cure still?

[ecoli]

i do believe there is a vaccine, but that wouldn't help people who already have it.

[Helix]

Bird flu was discovered in Germany in a housecat, I read. That's a nightmare scenario: the deadly 'pandemic flu' right smack-dab in western Europe....

 

But all of this doomsaying rests on the crux that the flu will morph, by whatever means, to become pathogenic to humans. That's no small feat, but I suppose it pays to be safe.