Are you concerned about bird flu?

Colin Angus Mackay

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Pete OHanlon

This makes me think that cats are going to have a tough time soon. Imagine the scene. A bunch of sparrows surrounding a terrified cat with the birds sneezing at the cat.

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Rhys Gravell

Its the fact that people actually make the effort to respond to a poll with the response 'I don't know' that bemuses me - d'ya reckon they've nothing much to do by any chance?

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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

What is this world coming to?

The Birds.

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Actually yes, IF it hits the United States. There have not been reported cases of the bird flu in pet birds, but it could happen. I eat only free-range chicken which conditions are much better than in the big poultry farms that seem to get hit the most often so the chance of getting bird flu via food source for me is low.

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Lost User

I don't care, I'm not a bird :rolleyes:

quiteSmart

don't worry cause scientist showed that u wont be affected unless you touched the bird when it is alive. meaning if you eat the bird after cooking it there wont be any danger to you life

ensger

Normaly I would agree. But in relationship with birh flu it's the wrong decission. An infection with birth flu happens after contact with wild birds. With us, when there was the danger of birth flu, it was forbidden to let chickens autside for month.

Lost User

I added a "joke" icon, cause obviously everybody thinks I meant this seriously ;) regards

Nish Nishant

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

5.62% (215) people taking part in the poll "don't know" if they are concerned about bird flu! Do these people not even know thier own minds!

They probably meant that they are not particularly concerned, but don't know if they should be. If you asked my grandma if she thought Vista was good or if it was bad, her reply would be don't-know. Something like that here I guess.

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Dan Neely

At the moment it doesn't readily cross the species barrier, but that's subject to change in the future. The great flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was probably a bird flu. We still can't cure a virus, and while modern supportive medicine is much better than the situation ~90 years ago it won't do any good against a disease where you goto bed healthy, and die overnight without ever waking up.

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quiteSmart

:doh::doh::doh:

Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

They need to conduct a blue ribbon panel to decide how they really feel about the issue and see if it will be a deciding issue in the next election. Also, they need to see how their opponent feels about the issue and do some pre opinion dirt digging. Only then can they come out and see, "I have no recollection of the events leading up to and after the bird flu pandemic" and secure their reelection.

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Colin Angus Mackay

I don't think the questions are the same thing: Do you think Vista is good or bad? (1) It's good; (2) It's bad; (3) I don't know if it is good or bad. Are you concerned about bird flu? (1) I am concerned; (2) I am not concerned (3) I don't know if I am concerned. Your question is about what you think of the state of another object. The question I highlighted was about the state of oneself.

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Nish Nishant

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

(3) I don't know if I am concerned.

I believe that a lot of people misinterpreted option (3) as : (3) I don't know if I need to be concerned ...indicating that they do not know enough about bird blue. Note that I am not defending them, I am trying to see how they came to that answer.

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ednrgc

No, the fact is that more people die from falling off the toilet bowl than bird flu.

Paul Watson

You can't get bird flu through eating birds. Even if you eat an infected bird. Cooking kills the flu. Freezing kills the flu. You pretty much have to find an infected, live bird and start sucking on its rear end to get infected. Or do some strange Satanic ritual involving bird blood.

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Frank Kerrigan

Don't you have to touch it, before you cook it ?

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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

Humour is just lost on some people!

It wasn't me! :-)

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ensger wrote:

An infection with birth flu happens after contact with wild birds.

:confused: Not so! Please do not spread this myth. X| H5N1 (commonly called avian flu or bird flu) infection is possible from exposure to infected birds or infected bird excrement regardless of if the bird is wild, domesticated, living or dead. :omg: Wild birds are considered a vector in the spread of H5N1 but are not the only vector. :doh: The original detection of the H5N1 virus happened in Hong Kong in 1997 and involved chickens raised for market. Since then H5N1 has spread around the world and has infected not only chickens but many other avian species. :sigh: In the US, a few years ago, and now in the UK it has been detected in turkeys. Internationally it has been detected in chickens, turkeys, ducks, both domesticated and wild, as well as a variety migratory birds. :~ To say that "infection with birth flu happens after contact with wild birds" is not true. :rolleyes:

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