A public service announcement
Despite what the media may want you to think, we are not all going to die of the avian flu this year. If we do, it's going to be in the same way that we were all going to die of West Nile Virus a few summers ago.
I think that the world in general (and definitely America) needs to drastically reduce it's collective intake of caffiene and/or stupidity.
posted by NinjaGeek @ 12:06 AM
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Read some accounts of the 1918 pandemic. The effect of this bird flu, in humans, is similarly horrific. It is, by most informed accounts, a statistical certainty that it will eventually mutate so as to be transmissable human-to-human. At that point, we're in for a very unpleasant time. So, the stakes are high enough that concern is warranted. This is not a case of media hype. It's a case of the media making a belated discovery of a very frightening and (because of negligence among policy-makers) nearly inevitable event.
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