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cosmicone

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12. Every year, about 4 bird flu outbreaks occur

Reply to FourScore (Reply #7)

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:46 AM

Apr 2013

somewhere in the world. They do not result in a pandemic.

Anything is possible -- a meteor might wipe the earth out one day but does that mean you spend 24/7 with a telescope looking for one?

The odds of this strain creating human to human transmission are close to zero. I agree that they are not zero but creating panick is unwarranted.

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China Calling In Flu Experts From Around World as Outbreak Widens [View all] Purveyor Apr 2013 OP

What are their symptoms? Iliyah Apr 2013 #1

Public Health Theater cosmicone Apr 2013 #2

Not everyone has been intimate with chickens, apparently. enlightenment Apr 2013 #3

Due to my background, training and experience cosmicone Apr 2013 #5

All dangerous human viruses made the jump from animals at one point or another NickB79 Apr 2013 #8

Exercising caution and a close watch cosmicone Apr 2013 #10

Excellent advice Stuckinthebush Apr 2013 #11

Agree 100% One nasty virus went from a bat to a civet cat to a family. It doesn't take much of a byeya Apr 2013 #16

maybe they ate chicken? Sunlei Apr 2013 #15

How do you know it won't go human to human? Marrah_G Apr 2013 #4

Read above n/t cosmicone Apr 2013 #6

"Read(ing) above" doesn't answer the question. FourScore Apr 2013 #7

Every year, about 4 bird flu outbreaks occur cosmicone Apr 2013 #12

Not arrogant, simple facts siligut Apr 2013 #17

It is too soon for a panic reaction at this point. Coyotl Apr 2013 #9

This is how the zombie apocalypse begins. nt Javaman Apr 2013 #13

Dang! In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #18

how much raw chicken meat, processed meals are shipped to America? Sunlei Apr 2013 #14