Bird Flu??

[ianthe plumb]

How worried should we be???

[dot.hawkes]

Not too much unless you havn't got your frozen turkey in for easter sunday.

[hopalong]

I couldn't give a cluck

[Zen]

I.m prepared http://www.leeharding.net/hideout/?p=26

[allotment10]

i like that zen - made me laugh anyway cluck cluck

[spacechimp]

that's a load off my mind Zen, there's no purchase option though..

[lizwizz]

You should be more worried getting in your car.

[qapmoc]

I suspect from the flippant answers that many of you have not been keeping in touch with the medical situation on the H5N1 virus and how worried the medical profession is about bird->human transfer and you may not have noticed that the only part of the world where H5N1 has not been found yet is the USA and the experts say that it will not be long before it has arrived there also.
Add to that the fact that some Asian countries are starting to make predictions of the financial consequences of a pandemic which makes it obvious that they fear the probability may be high that it happens.
And then consider that 95% of the people who have caught the virus have died it does not make a pretty picture.

[milly143]

It's the same as when there was mad cow disease and foot and mouth. A lot of scare mongering and nothing much (human wise) to come of it.

[KittyGlitter]

I think we worry about what the media tell us to worry about. Let's look at the stats - assuming they are correct!

As of 6 April 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) had confirmed 192 cases of H5N1 in humans in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, China, Turkey and Iraq, leading to 109 deaths (since 2003).

In comparison, about 1.5 million to 3 million people die of malaria every year - yet we hear nothing about that in the media do we? That's probably because it doesn't affect us in the developed world.

[spacechimp]

We heard an awful lot about famine...for about a fortnight. Funny how nobody is even aware of its existence now.

[spacechimp]

That's a very pornographic website Zen. :O