Page 1 of 2
Cat has bird flu..
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:15 pm
by claudek
mamals are now contracting this deadly virus..are we next?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/germany_bird ... MlJVRPUCUl
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:33 pm
by robin
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:02 pm
by louZ
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...
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:04 pm
by robin
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:16 pm
by Nixon
please, not again...
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:18 pm
by robin
Nixon wrote:please, not again...
you're right Nixon...this ain't the place....
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:00 pm
by D DAS
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:32 pm
by eyeknow
Poor kitty, I LOVE kitty cats,..........
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:39 pm
by lola
We are all gonna die anyway.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:45 pm
by thelike5
lola wrote:We are all gonna die anyway.
(Slowly brushes the dust off of his tatterd existentialist book collection and laments after posting)...
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:12 pm
by network.funky
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!
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:34 pm
by conny
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
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:50 pm
by network.funky
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:41 pm
by drush
what the motherF has this got to do with Live?
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:53 pm
by network.funky
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!?
