what has happened to bird flu ?

[johnny.5]

are we all safe now ? or are there more important things to keep us all scared for the time being ?

[buildersmate]

Yes, attention has turned to pork. It's lamb's turn next week.

[mrs.chappie]

Bobtheturkey's the man to ask.

[derekpara]

Or Chuckfickens

[Lakitu]

I have it at the mo :(

[cazzz1975]

virilent man-flu has wiped out birdflu

[ludwig]

All the birds that were carrying bird flu caught the flesh eating bug necrotising whatsititis and died. Just as well, cos all their eggs were full of salmonella. The flesh eating bug was then wiped out by the SARS virus, which in turn fell prey to the Ebola virus. The Ebola virus escaped to the north pole but luckily was sitting on an icberg that melted because of the hole in the ozone layer, which you don't hear much about any more. Anyway, it turns out we're safe.

[New Judge]

And in a few years time, ludwig, you will be able to incorporate "global warming" or "climate change" (or whatever it is called) into your excellent joke.

I have said many times that during my lifetime I have been told of numerous catstrophes which are due to wipe out half of humankind. Bird 'flu was one of them (I remember Nick Ferrari challenging a scientist to return to his programme about now to discuss how many of the millions of deaths he had confidently forecast had actually occurred).

Climate Change is the latest in a long line.

[Jillius]

It 'flu' away !

[jno]

the hole in the ozone layer changed with the seasons. It was getting bigger and bigger each year, thanks to overuse of CFCs. So CFCs were banned in much of the world. Now the hole is smaller again. That's why you don't hear much about it any more: the world took action and solved the problem. Perhaps there's a moral there somewhere?

Anyway, bird flu is passe. We are now busy exporting cholera to Zimbabwe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/778072 8.stm

[Panic Button]

I'm still suffering from the millennium bug.

[123everton]

There's just been an outbreak in Hong Kong I think, 40,000 od chickens and duck destoyed.

[buildersmate]

What, just the one duck?

[wonkon-wonk]

Bird flu is nothing compared to MAN FLU....fact!

[jake-the-peg]

It's a time bomb we've got used to.

The current strain is not infectious human to human so those who work in the poultry industry are the only ones really at risk at the moment and they take special precautions.

but cases keep coming up like this
http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2008/080603d.htm

But the media can only keep interest in such a story for so long whilst there's no human element.

There's only really a major risk if it mutates to be transmissible human to human, nobody seems to really know how likely that is to happen.

If it does It'll be big news and there'll be a lot of fatalities.

[WoWo]

"There's just been an outbreak in Hong Kong I think, 40,000 od chickens and duck destoyed. "

There was never any doubt that bird flu existed or that birds got it, the danger was that it would mutate into a form which humans would be capable of contracting.

As said it was disaster of the month.... been replaced by something else and joined the rest of the previous entries.

Anybody remember the pending Ice Age in the 70's, didn't take long to turn in to global warming did it?