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Dark Carnival
25-03-2006, 12:59 PM
Do you think it's a tad exagerated by the media?
Did you stop eating poultry?
Rachey
25-03-2006, 01:23 PM
I think it probably has been over exagerated yes, people always go into mass panic over things like this and nothing really happens. Look at the whole Y2K drama.

And im still eating poultry!
Jimmy
25-03-2006, 01:26 PM
I don't think you can catch it from eating poultry can you? Insn't it more like inhaling spores or something?
Rachey
25-03-2006, 01:28 PM
thats what i thought. plus once you cook things to a certain temperature they lose any germs they had anyway.
Dark Carnival
25-03-2006, 01:40 PM
I don't think you can catch it from eating poultry can you? Insn't it more like inhaling spores or something?
Right, but people still panic.
Dark Carnival
25-03-2006, 01:41 PM
I think it probably has been over exagerated yes, people always go into mass panic over things like this and nothing really happens. Look at the whole Y2K drama.

What ever happened to SARS?
Alex
25-03-2006, 01:45 PM
Right, but people still panic.

Panic sells papers...
Tigerclaw
25-03-2006, 01:49 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1600000/images/_1604696_anthrax300.jpg




I love it when you get hysterical headlines...
Weltmeister
25-03-2006, 03:05 PM
Germany had hundreds of dead and infected birds during the last few weeks. Even few cats and one marten (or something like that). Yesterday the first infected bird was found in Berlin.

No human infected so far. Aslong birds don't live with you in a house, it's harmless. Poor countries have much more reasons for panic IMHO.
Weltmeister
25-03-2006, 03:06 PM
But your cats should stay inside the house. It's hard, but more secure. They don't COOK their birds, before they eat them. ;)
Loufoque
25-03-2006, 03:07 PM
I don't really care to be honest. More scaremongering if you ask me.
Strebor
25-03-2006, 04:05 PM
Thing is it IS inevitable that it'll mutate and will eventually be passed from person to person.... in terms of the numbers infected I don;t have a lot of time for statistics... we're still waiting for the CJD pandemic after all
abnormal
25-03-2006, 05:03 PM
I'm still buying my McChicken!
Sebastian Flyte
07-04-2006, 10:27 PM
More paranoia again on the news. Everytime anyone finds a dead sparrow or something they'll be phoning emergency services :grr:
Gavin
07-04-2006, 10:33 PM
We had the comedy joy of Jackie Bird presenting us the latest on the flu.
Madison
23-06-2006, 05:01 PM
We're all going to die :(
Loufoque
23-06-2006, 05:15 PM
I heard Rachey has bird flu. Is it true?
Pipo
23-06-2006, 05:17 PM
Donald Duck
Joseph
24-06-2006, 09:55 AM
Oprah said this is IMPORTANT and we should all be AFRAID

housewives AGOG
Rachey
24-06-2006, 10:59 AM
I heard Rachey has bird flu. Is it true?
YES. I caught it off a seagull.

:(
Toyah
24-06-2006, 11:22 AM
What a TO DO and HOO HA over NOTHING! Bring on a smallpox pandemic PLEASE!
Strebor
24-06-2006, 11:24 AM
YES. I caught it off a seagull.

:(

You should be quarantined... the whole of your Island might be at risk :o

Actually, throw a party, meet new PEOPLE!!! :disco:
David
24-06-2006, 11:44 AM
Whatever happened to SARS and necrotising fasciitis?
lolly
24-06-2006, 12:14 PM
necrotising fasciitis?


I remember thinking I had that
Agnetha
24-06-2006, 12:16 PM
What was THAT?
Alex
24-06-2006, 12:16 PM
YES. I caught it off a seagull.

:(

If ONLY then they might shoot them all. :grr:
Strebor
24-06-2006, 12:23 PM
What was THAT?

flesh eating bugs, they were all the rage in the mid nineties
Toyah
24-06-2006, 01:09 PM
flesh eating bugs, they were all the rage in the mid nineties

Sadly I hear Fern Britton has that disease. She'll be dead in 20 years.
Agnetha
24-06-2006, 01:12 PM
flesh eating bugs, they were all the rage in the mid ninetiesHow quickly these population destroying viruses burn out...
David
24-06-2006, 05:58 PM
Nectorising Fasciitis was the best bug hysteria EVER! I think everyone who got a spot was suddenly about to die!