Posted by BlueQuill
Bird Flu Strikes Britain. And this time the virus has mutated. It has combined with the human influenza virus and can now spread form man to man. WHO estimates, if the virus strikes in full form it will cause approximately 20 million deaths world wide.
Britain's chief medical Officer told doctors in the country to prepare for the worst when, not if, the bird flu pandemic breaks out.
Sir Liam Donaldson asked the 34,000 general practitioners to prepare an emergency plan to dole out the 14 million doses of vaccines, The Observer reports.
The announcement comes at a time when Europe is taking the possible bird flu pandemic more serious.
It was first discovered in Asia in December 2003. Since then, more than 60 people and millions of animals, mostly birds and poultry, have died.
On Saturday Europe's first cases of bird flu were confirmed in multiple birds in Romania and Turkey.
So....does the countdown begin ???
Posted by kk.226
How bad does it get? I know it causes death... buy what are the symptoms?
Posted by BlueQuill
The symptoms are the same as common cold... Coughing, running nose, headache, fever, dizziness.....
Posted by Kryptik
My family doctor and i had the same discussion the other day. He commented on how easy it would be for this to replace AIDS as the world's number one killer... and wipe out the entire global population in record time....
Posted by kk.226
Will it get his serious in Britain you think? Soooooooo many deaths?
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Posted by BlueQuill
It is not serious, it is very serious. All this because of the mutated form of the virus. Touch the infected birds, you are infected, stay in the company of a infected man, you get the virus. Watch out everybody.
Posted by Stinger151
is there a cure?
Posted by BlueQuill
None till now
Posted by kk.226
So hopefully they'll get it sorted in time?
Preventaion is better than cure!
Posted by Stinger151
Your taking this 2 serious ok ive been reading up about this basically its a bird flu which has mutated and can now infect humans but basically its deadly to us beacause our bodies has never had anything like this which means our immune systems wont be able to protect us.
This will be more deadly to young kids and old people.
When it comes scientists will be able to take samples and make a vaccine.
But also for those of you that are healthy your body may also make a cure and be able to combat the flu.
Posted by kk.226
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How is that taking it to seriously? It is a serious issue if people die...
Posted by Stinger151
true people will die we could die but i doupt it will be the end of the world.
Posted by Leviath
who gives a toss really.... We live in such a sick world that is so far up it's own back side the only way to cure it is to start again....
Hell I am not afraid of neither life or death....
And pain as been very close friend...
So if it comes, come on then....
Posted by joebmc
If a serious threat of a rich country being virtually wiped out by a natural virus I’m sure they would be enough money spent on research to find a cure.
IMO Aid’s would have had a cure by now if it was more of an issue in say America than Africa (Africa obviously doesn’t have the money to research it).
Posted by Sammy_boy
IMO a lot of this is scaremongering. I'm not scared, worried or anything yet, and don't intend to unless things get really bad.
The media at the moment is blowing it all out of all proportion and scaring the population (and probably most of Europe) unnessecarily.
There are health scares pretty much every day, and if we took notice of every single one of them we'd all be nervous wrecks. Is it no wonder more people are suffering from anxiety and depression with all this crap floating about?
Posted by BlueQuill
Pain, suffering and death is not meant for the poor alone. Slap a white man and he will get hurt too. When the virus strikes, it wont discriminate between rich and poor, white and black, african and british.
Posted by blayv
in fact, it will. how do you think magic johnson is still alive? because he has enough money for expensive treatment. why do african people die massively, and so fast? because they can't afford food every day, let alone therapy. there is aids therapy, which can prolong life effectively, but it costs. this virus will hit immunoincompetent hardest, like kids, older, and as always poor.
Posted by Stinger151
BlueQuill, plse shut the hell up u do chat a lot of shit dont u!
If your rich you have less chance of dying from medical diseases take lung cancer all you'd have to do is buy a new one for a transplant where as someone poor person in africa with lung cancer would die as they dont have enough fo medical help.
If it was that serious dont u think theyd be doing more?
The scientists the sooner it comes the sooner thell be a cure all they need is the disease so they can get to work on killing it.
Posted by BlueQuill
Bloody hell ! You think you know everything stinger? If that was the case, then what have your scientists/doctors have can doing? Why no cure for cancer, no cure for aids, no cure for even the common cold???!!!
Posted by kk.226
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I belived a member with a post count such as yourself would be smart, knowledgable and mature...
...clearly not the case
Posted by max_wedge
there is already a vacine but as you heard in an earlier post, the british government have only enough for 14 million people (in the case of britain). Now last I checked their population is well over 14 mil.
Here in australia they only have enough for 100 000 or so. And that is the less effective vacine our government is buying (ten percent effective) not the good stuff...
First world governments will get a bad shake up by this virus if it spreads. They are completely unprepared and not ready to spend the cash necessary to portect the entire population.
So much for paying taxes...in a real emergency the government have blown all the dough on big business handouts and have nothing left of OUR money to protect us....
Posted by EastCoastStar
is this strictly in britian? i knwo alot of people over here in the US who have gotten VERY sick... so sick they dont even want to move, or anything
Posted by Pradhika
One more addition in support to m-r. Still i am sure everything will be overcome and nothing will end.
Posted by JK
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For one the entire world is looking for a cure, billions are spent on research... I however c a negative side to it... Scientists have probably tested EVERYTHING by now rite>?? So why is there still no cure???
But joe, its not coz it in Africa ... though any one heard the conspiracy bout the US starting AidS to kill of the masses in Africa? could be true so maybe joe got a point... maybe.
@ BlueQuill/M/R
I think you looking foward to the end of the world!!!! Am I right??
Posted by Cornholio_666
are you sure its hit britain? theres nothing about it in britain in the latest headlines on the bbc news website. if it did strike britain it would be in the latest headlines, but its not, which leads me to believe you are talking utter shite.
Posted by BlueQuill
Thanks prads. <\\br> @756KBR i am no gabriel or jeremiah forecasting the end. What i say is what is happening. The last couple of years have been very tumultous for all of us. One after the other we have had disasters, both natural and mammade, strike the world. From terrorist attacks to wars, from hurricanes to earthquakes, from one disease to the other. Glaciers are melting, temperatures are rising.......... is the Lord trying to give us an indication?? Or shall we all ignore it and continue to lead our sinful lives?? Today thousands died in the earthquake that hit pakistan and india. Tomorrow it maybe you or me.......
Posted by JK
So Whats d plan? What do you intend to do about?
Alot of prophecies predicted this, the "uncontolable weather patterns" and all the rest... Scientists cant explain it, you watch the news today and they say its gonna be "fine and mild" but theres a massive thunder storm!!!! No one knows whats goin on, niether do I.
Whats your calculation? How many years do we have left?
Posted by Davo_169
oh man im too young to die.....i want to live my life..i dont wanna die....i hate everyone for f*cking everything up!!!
Posted by BlueQuill
As i said that i am no gabriel or jeremiah.... Let us just hope that its not today or tomorrow
Posted by Sammy_boy
Oh dear, we all do seem to be running about like headless, erm, chickens!
It's not going to be anywhere near as bad as everyone thinks, I'd bet you if I had any money!!!
Does anyone remember the 'Millenium Bug'? And the chaos that was going to ensure when the clocks struck midnight on Jan 1, 2000 and many computers supposedly were going to get confused and not work properly? They predicted all kinds of things from your washing machine not working to power cuts to chaos on the financial markets. BUGGER ALL HAPPENED!!!
And what about all the scaremongering about SARS?
Besides, it is OURSELVES that are the bringers of happiness or doom, and create our own living heaven or hell, no mythical deity
Posted by JK
This is rather ironic
Its human nature last nite when I went to mosque, we took this road an old road that we used to take like 10 years ago, and back then we were always so scared to drive through there coz it was so dark and "scary" this time the roads still dark but we scared of something else... getting hijacked!
So it shows our stupid wacked out dillusional minds... 10 years ago we were scared of ghosts, now we scared of hijackers....
@ blue why musnt the world end tomorow?? U busy??
Posted by BlueQuill
Posted by Leviath
are we not people as worthy as before, just because we dont believe?
I was born and bread a catholic....
Converted to Buddhism...
I know many out there think Buddhism i worst a believe that catholicism....
But The God you all seek is right there in your hearts.... Its called a concience....
I think if the world began again it would be a blessing..... In fact the world will never end since there is no way of anyone reporting the end of the world... If there are no witnesses how does anyone know for sure....????
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Posted by max_wedge
the aliens watching will see. And then they will come down and terra form earth for their own needs, then probably destroy it again in ten thousands years when they have screwed it up again...
And so it goes....
Posted by BlueQuill
@max , you mean The Matrix??
Posted by Leviath
Matrix???
Since when is there any aliens in the Matrix (the film or concept)????
Posted by BlueQuill
Aliens arent there but the post suggested a similarity
Posted by BlueQuill
Hurricane wilma , category 5, 280k/hr about to strike texas. Katrina, rita, and now wilma....
Posted by Leviath
freakin wilma and the matrix aliens.... now these chickens....
Posted by goldenface
Clucking Hell! Though you cannot catch it from eating chickens otherwise I would be really worried. No more Roast Chicken? :-(
Posted by batesie
stop being such a chicken, i've had no symptoms. just felt peckish....
Posted by Sammy_boy
End of the world? I'm more worried about these chicken jokes!
Though I think I might have made a 'headless chicken' comment earlier!
Posted by mad4mobiles
why can't we never die? would we get bored of the world (sorry very very random post
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Posted by Gigs
Because then threads like this would be called "So you're 7896 years old.. what to do now?"
Posted by goldenface
Who ruffled your feathers?
Posted by BlueQuill
Wilma is the 12th hurricane of this year and has matched the record of 1969. There are 6 more weeks to the hurricane season.........So we can have more..
Posted by BlueQuill
*** breaking news *** Man aged 48 dies of bird flu in Thailand. He was the 67th person known to have been killed by the virus. Doctors say he was infected with the bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and then ate it.
Posted by Jim
Who said the virus has mutated ? Afaik there are no cases in europe, stop watching the news who are just scarring the shit out of you to have a bigger article the next morning !
Posted by goldenface
Yeah. You tell'em Jim. There has always been plagues and pestilence threatening mankind throughout the ages. Last thing we need is more doommongering. :-D
Posted by blayv
I think the main moment of this news is that if slaughtered it. Maybe if he were gentle none would have happened.:-)