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Bird Flu Is Back....H7N9

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  • #52
    Chuck Stone
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    Rabies will kick its ass.


  • #53
    up for anything
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    Thrill wrote: »
    This man claims he had no contact with birds or poultry while in Suzhou, China......

    ......There's still no clue as to the source but the WHO claims birds the most likely. How its spreading is also a puzzle as a lot of people have had no contact with poultry.

    From my limited experience of Asia (and the most sanitised part of Asia at that) you're never that far away from poultry even if it is dead. Every place serviing chicken claw soup seems to have a bundle of claws hanging around. Can viruses leap from a dead host to a live host?
    Thrill wrote: »

    The number of cases of H7N9 infections is 108. 22 have died and there have been 12 recoveries.

    What of the other 66 - are they still sick at present, do you know?


  • #54
    Awesomeness
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    Yeah you often go into restaurants here and see birds. I was at a bbq place just monday night and they had a cage with 2 birds on the floor. one alive one dead


  • #55
    Thrill
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    up for anything wrote: »
    From my limited experience of Asia (and the most sanitised part of Asia at that) you're never that far away from poultry even if it is dead. Every place serviing chicken claw soup seems to have a bundle of claws hanging around. Can viruses leap from a dead host to a live host?



    What of the other 66 - are they still sick at present, do you know?

    Mostly serious and critical from what I've read.

    A Chinese pharmaceutical company has said today that a vaccine should be ready by august. Four months to contain the virus until then.


  • #56
    Turtwig
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    Thrill wrote: »
    Mostly serious and critical from what I've read.

    A Chinese pharmaceutical company has said today that a vaccine should be ready by august. Four months to contain the virus until then.

    Jesus! That's not a very good window. This is looking like one really nasty virus. :(
    I hope they can contain it, but I do have my doubts.


  • #57
    Capt'n Midnight
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    smash wrote: »
    Why does this stuff always happen in Asia first?
    You mean like the measles in Wales ? They are still not certain if it was the cause of death, but back in 2000 kids died of it here.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22299596


  • #58
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Birdemic was right. Time to stock up on coat hangers. We'll get the barstewards!


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