bird flu..

[missjef]

has bird flu gone now? i mean it never seems to be in the papers any more or on the news? was it just another media frenzy?

[missjef]

i have a feeling it is too

[shammydodger]

To the everlasting chagrin of the Daily Mail subeditors! What can they try to frighten us with next?

[jake-the-peg]

It really gets my goat when people discribe SARS as over hyped.

Go speak to some doctors and nurses in Toronto and say that and see what they think!

It was an only a lot of hard work by the World Health Organisation that stopped hundreds of thousands from dying.

In case anybody's not noticed the bird migration season is over.

Birds from all over Europe are currently holidaying together in the sun.

Take a wild guess about what'll happen in Autumn.

Right now I wouldn't be too worried about human health but I we could be seeing a major poultry farming issue in the next year or two.

[shammydodger]

Jake the peg

I don't think any of us were saying that SARS was over-hyped. Or maybe we are. It's just that for many months we in the UK were being bombarded with tales that many millions were going to die and we couldn't do anything about it. The same was true of the BSE scare. Hving been unnecessarily scared shitless about those two scenarios, we are now quite understandably skeptical about the bird flu scare.

[ludwig]

..anyone remember the flesh eating bug that was going to eat us all?, necrotising fasciitis or whatever it was called.

[carrust]

It was the usual media frenzy! Did anyone get the worst winter weather since 1947? Er...no.

[littleoldme]

Bird flu has been postponed for the duration of the World Cup or, if shorter, the length of England's participation in it. Outbreaks are expected in the Daily Mail and Daily Express any time from then on, and a full epidemic, taking in The Sun, The Sport and News of the World, is expected to start around two days after the end of the current series of Big Brother.

[mightyWBA]

My Budgie,Bob,had a bit of a sniffle this morning.

[jake-the-peg]

I woke up peckish! - boom boom!

I'm just saying don't lump SARS into the list of media hyped near disasters.

Some of these disasters don't come to pass because a lot of work is done!

Remember the milennium bug? Well I work in computer testing and I and thousands of others like me worked like slaves coming up to the millenium to weed out problem computer code and when nothing happened and the press did their "What a load of hype" stories well we weren't best pleased!

[phaloides]

A crowded cupboard. I'm sure the New Zealand flat worm is in there too.