Hmm seems people think I was being serious.
Thing is will it mutate into a human to human transmitable virus?
Quite possibly, but when? If you read all the stuff about bird-flu going back over the last couple of years then according to various experts it was supposed to have already mutated and we'd be suffering from a pandemic. It hasn't happened.
Also the precautions are quite simple. It seems that everyone has forgotten the "coughs and sneezes spreads diseases" saying and thus a lot of people don't cough into hankies, or they spit in the street.
As for my comment above. It was harsh, and I will admit I did write it to see what kind of response would be written. Thing is pandemics are natures extreme population control. These things seem to rise up when populations are closely packed and hygeine and health conditions are not the greatest.
If it mutates, could I catch it? Maybe. I have no intention of doing so but that will depend on the roll of the dice.
Thing is simple measures such as coughing into a hanky and not spitting in the street are effective ways of combatting the spread of disease.
When I lived in Russia I used to think the Russians over reacted when they wanted me to stay home because I had flu like symptoms or was coughing with some nasty infection. I now see the point, it is to stop spreading disease. Along these lines is annoys the hell out of me when I see mothers dragging their kids round the shop when these children are obviously not well and are coughing all over the place and don't cover their mouth or anything.
Of course I don't want to see people wiped out, but if it happens it happens. The best we can do is to try not to put ourselves in the situation.
As for bird-flu even the pandemic talk, I still believe the media is over hyping it.
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