Originally posted by French Tip
And what if this flu is different?Both my fathers say that if this flu mutates it could mean trouble.
This Flu is proven to be most akin to the flus of the late 1800's. If I recall correctly, 5 million died.....
However, this is not the late 1800's...
While it should be worried about, most of the population is neither old, sick, or dying.
well the bird flu virus is not actually dangerous to humans, its only when someone who has already got the normal flu catches it.
When this happens the bird flu will mutate with normal flu, which means it will then start spreading like normal flu but this time killing alot of people.
The reason why this Flu will be dangerous is because these viruses do not commonly infect humans, there is little or no immune protection against them in the human population. This means the elderly and the young and people with low immune systems are most at risk.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
There's no vaccine, but unless we've all been taking a bit of a nap, it would be wise to assume we're medically better off now than we were then.Let's just take time to realise that. Let's also look at all the other fake "We're dying" scenarios:
/How many times have there been asteroids coming to destroy us that now aren't? A few.
/Ebola virus. "Gonna wreck havoc on the world." Yeah.
/SARS. Same deal.
/CJD-BSE. Same deal.
The only problem would be if this actually was serious and it turned out to be a boy crying wolf scenario. How likely is that? Not that likely.
Our doctors, nurses, governments are all on the case of preparing for it now. Don't see any worry.
-AC
i have thought that myself how many people stopped doing things for them or locked them selves away for look at SARS/ Legionnaires` Disease and so on we have a lot more hygiene and medicines since 1918 we could hopefully sort it out