Welcome birdflu :'(

PancakeGoblin · Post by **PancakeGoblin** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:33 pm

wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
sam wrote:I pwned sars.
I pwned your pancakes.
Only 32.35% of your posts feature pancakes.

Yeah, well....100000000000000000000000000% of your pancakes are to be stolen by me....beat that!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:34 pm

minkster wrote:From what I heard is that the bird flu has a rare chance of transmitting from birds to humans at least as of now. It takes thousands of years to happen, but its like the lottery really. There is that one chance it could happen, and it could wipe out a lot of people. In the meantime, I wouldn't worry until the news says its becoming an epidemic. There is no way one could prepare for it.

First you have to understand that you are thinking in the terms of our idea of a generation. A viruses can be as short as a number of hours, so evolution is faster. But you are correct that it's chances are not likely.

However if the birdflu did begin to affect humans, it's unlikely that a large population will die. Birdflu is just that a flu, so only young children, the elderly or anyone who has a compramised emmune system. So stay healthy and your safe.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:38 pm

Heh, I was watching the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and they were showing a clip from Fox News. The caption for a story preview: A Killer is Coming (or something like that) The video: a chicken running around a city sidewalk. Probably for the bird flu, and extremely funny

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:40 pm

PancakeGoblin wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
sam wrote:I pwned sars.
I pwned your pancakes.
Only 32.35% of your posts feature pancakes.
Yeah, well....100000000000000000000000000% of your pancakes are to be stolen by me....beat that!

Should I break out playground logic of infinity plus one?

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:51 pm

wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
sam wrote:I pwned sars.
I pwned your pancakes.
Only 32.35% of your posts feature pancakes.
Yeah, well....100000000000000000000000000% of your pancakes are to be stolen by me....beat that!
Should I break out playground logic of infinity plus one?

If you do, I'm going to have to use an infitity plus two logic thingy

Trv · Post by **Trv** » Tue May 09, 2006 8:10 pm

Sparkfist wrote:
minkster wrote:From what I heard is that the bird flu has a rare chance of transmitting from birds to humans at least as of now. It takes thousands of years to happen, but its like the lottery really. There is that one chance it could happen, and it could wipe out a lot of people. In the meantime, I wouldn't worry until the news says its becoming an epidemic. There is no way one could prepare for it.
First you have to understand that you are thinking in the terms of our idea of a generation. A viruses can be as short as a number of hours, so evolution is faster. But you are correct that it's chances are not likely.

However if the bird flu did begin to affect humans, it's unlikely that a large population will die. Bird flu is just that a flu, so only young children, the elderly or anyone who has a compramised emmune system. So stay healthy and your safe.

The bird flu can effect humans and i already has. A few months ago 6 people died from it. Right now it can go from birds to people not people to people. If and when it does go people to people, that's when we are screwed.

Also, if you read my previous post the people with GOOD IMMUNE SYSTEMS are most effected by it.:

http://www.ninthday.com/spanish_flu.htm wrote:Not only was the Spanish Flu strikingly virulent, but it displayed an unusual preference in its choice of victims---tending to select young healthy adults over those with weakened immune systems, as in the very young, the very old, and the infirm.

The bird flu and spanish (1918 flu) are almost identical so most likely it will effect HEALTHY people most.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:31 pm

Oh so the birdflu has been proven to cause about 100 times more new viruses out of each cell. That's the reason the Spanish flu killed so quickly and spread so quickly. I haven't heard any of this stuff, hell really the birdflu is kind of low on the radar. If it were as bad as it's made out to be people would have died by the 10s or even triple digits.

loup · Post by **loup** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:36 pm

Lucretius wrote:I'd care if the robin that made a nest outside my window did! I like her! I named her Anabelle. And her husband is Frank. And their kids are Devin, Sandy, and Chris! Er...

I get nervous when the doctors and medical peoples say it's transmissable to humans...

Not to worry Luc, oddly, avian influenza has almost no effect on wild birds, they are carriers but don't get sick from it. Domesticated birds are effected, they get sick and die. Kind of odd, don't you think.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:37 pm

SpongeBuell wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
sam wrote:I pwned sars.
I pwned your pancakes.
Only 32.35% of your posts feature pancakes.
Yeah, well....100000000000000000000000000% of your pancakes are to be stolen by me....beat that!
Should I break out playground logic of infinity plus one?
If you do, I'm going to have to use an infitity plus two logic thingy

We're going to be in trouble once we hit infinity plus infinity.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:24 am

wallydawg wrote:
SpongeBuell wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
PancakeGoblin wrote:
sam wrote:I pwned sars.
I pwned your pancakes.
Only 32.35% of your posts feature pancakes.
Yeah, well....100000000000000000000000000% of your pancakes are to be stolen by me....beat that!
Should I break out playground logic of infinity plus one?
If you do, I'm going to have to use an infitity plus two logic thingy
We're going to be in trouble once we hit infinity plus infinity.

..................infinity
..Infinity

Infinity to the infinite power

.

sam · Post by **sam** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:42 am

Are you happy games a lot are you? you just broke the universe. Another thing 200 people out of 6.5 billion, do the math guys you have a pretty good chance.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:47 am

sam wrote:Are you happy games a lot are you? you just broke the universe.

Awww It ain't that bad, I'll just have to find the box and receipt and see if they'll exchange it or give me store credit.

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:30 am

loup wrote:The bird flu is mostly overyhyped by the media, very few people get it, it's not airborn. If you're that worried about it, wash your hands after playing with bird poo, cause that's about the only way to get it, touching something that is tainted with bird poo and then either eating something or rubbing your eyes. Yes, it's more resistant to antiviral medications, but as long as you're not the very young or elderly you'd probably survive it if you got it.

1, in rare cases inhalation of the virus can allow diffusion of it into the blood stream causing contagion

2, the real danger is the adaptive ability of a virus. Say you have normal flu that humans can get. A viral cell of that flu gnome expires releaseing its genetic material into the open in your blood stream. A viral cell of the H5-N1 gnome can intergrate this genetic material into its RNA allowing it to take on the characteristic of air born and human to human contagion.

3, Its extremely deadly and if it becomes highly ocntagious in a populated area your basically screwed. Who ever said 'it hardly kills anyone' most who have got it ARE DEAD. DEAD DEADEDY DEAD DEAD DEAD. A family of 12 in taiwan were infected and only 1 survived...

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:33 am

Bird flu is just something the media wants so scare the crap out of you about, then in a month it'll magically dissappear as the newscasters find their new flavor of the month.

Reminds me of the SARS scare and Mildly Peeved Cow Disease.

loup · Post by **loup** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:46 am

sam fisher wrote:3, Its extremely deadly and if it becomes highly ocntagious in a populated area your basically screwed. Who ever said 'it hardly kills anyone' most who have got it ARE DEAD. DEAD DEADEDY DEAD DEAD DEAD. A family of 12 in taiwan were infected and only 1 survived...

according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) there has been a mortality rate of approximately 30% in confirmed cases, there have been around 200 confirmed cases worldwide since 1997. Also according to the CDC, thay suspect that there have been more cases of avian influenza that were merely diagnosed as a strain of normal, human influenza or simply undiagnosed, and therefore, the mortality rate is likely much lower. One family of 12 dying off due to avian influenza does not an epidemic make.

[edit] I just searched for an outbreak of avian influenza in Taiwan and was unable to find any mention of 11 members of a family of 12 dying there, not even in the Taiwan Government Information Office. I suppose you might have ment Thailand, but I didn't find a mention of it for their either. So, if you would like to enlighten me by giving me a link to something credible that mentions avian influenza wiping out a whole family, please do.