Cat has bird flu..

claudek · Post by **claudek** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:15 pm

mamals are now contracting this deadly virus..are we next?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/germany_bird ... MlJVRPUCUl

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:33 pm

People have been catching this in Asia for a while.

It's the passing between mammals and, more importantly, humans that is the big worry. That hasn't happened yet afaik.

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:02 pm

robin wrote:People have been catching this in Asia for a while.

It's the passing between mammals and, more importantly, humans that is the big worry. That hasn't happened yet afaik.

You're right, it first has to mix with a human flu virus, i.e. someone with normal flu has to catch bird flu as well...

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:04 pm

louZ wrote:
robin wrote:People have been catching this in Asia for a while.

It's the passing between mammals and, more importantly, humans that is the big worry. That hasn't happened yet afaik.
You're right, it first has to mix with a human flu virus, i.e. someone with normal flu has to catch bird flu as well...

It's not quite as simple as that....the virus has to mutate.

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:16 pm

please, not again...

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:18 pm

Nixon wrote:please, not again...

you're right Nixon...this ain't the place....

D DAS · Post by **D DAS** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:00 pm

It's in Germany too. Make sure the Abe's don't catch the bug.

It would crash their system and cause their performance to be very low.

And that is not good.

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:32 pm

Poor kitty, I LOVE kitty cats,..........

lola · Post by **lola** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:39 pm

We are all gonna die anyway.

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:45 pm

lola wrote:We are all gonna die anyway.

(Slowly brushes the dust off of his tatterd existentialist book collection and laments after posting)...

network.funky · Post by **network.funky** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:12 pm

Hmm, so a cat ate a bird and caught bird flu

Tigers caught bird flu after eating infected chickens.

Shit you know what this means!? I'm just going to have to stop eating cats!

Damn!

conny · Post by **conny** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:34 pm

network.funky wrote: Shit you know what this means!? I'm just going to have to stop eating cats!
Damn!

Lots of cat milk, that's the antidote

// C

network.funky · Post by **network.funky** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:50 pm

conny wrote:Lots of cat milk, that's the antidote

// C

Is that like dogs milk?

Had a lot of that on my last space mission.

drush · Post by **drush** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:41 pm

what the motherF has this got to do with Live?

network.funky · Post by **network.funky** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:53 pm

drush wrote:what the motherF has this got to do with Live?

Erm, you won't get your money's worth out of Live if you die of bird flu!?