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Weren't we supposed to be dead from bird flu by now?
Remember bird flu? It was all the rage about a year and a half ago but has since seemed to have faded back into the brush of the Third World counties whence it came.
I even remember a very alarming made-for-TV movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" about it. Because, you know, a global threat isn't real until D-list actors get their hands on it. Well, bird flu isn't gone, even if the media has cooled on the issue, according to the World Health Organization. A 17-year-old maid from Tangerang, west of Jakarta, died earlier this month from the disease, bringing the toll to 322 sickened and 195 dead. Here's some facts about bird flu, put together by Reuters:
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posted by
woofwoof
on Aug 29, 2007 at 11:27 AM
I had wanted to get chickens, but with the media blowing this one outta proportion, I decided against it. I guess it could still happen. I do feel we are overdue for some kinds of pandemic. West Nile is about as close to that as we get for the "moment".
posted by
ghostriter
on Aug 29, 2007 at 01:54 PM
Yes, we were meant to be half-exterminated by bird flu by now. Then again, when my ex-husband was diagnosed with HIV, he was told he had 5-7 years. That was in 1992 and unfortunately the scumbag is still sucking air. They always tell us the worst case scenario and paint the "black plague" outlook.
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