Where are we with the bird flu pandemic?

[graywarrior]

I have not been paying attention.

[NMDemDist2]

1. It's in Iraq last I heard

and I still love your duck! I really miss him when we're at Level 2 :rofl:

[graywarrior]

2. Me too. I have to identity without him.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Obviously you command more respect than I do.

Or maybe the morning crowd is more cynical than the evening crowd here in DU.

Anyway, it was found in Bulgaria today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=332964&mesg_id=332964

[graywarrior]

9. Respect? Here? R U kidding?

[mike_c]

4. no real change in public health concerns or parameters...

...other than continued spread of the bird epizootic into eastern Asia.

[SPKrazy]

5. We Haven't Dodged Any Bullets Yet

it is still a very real threat.

and has been since 1996 BTW

But it is also a crap shoot as a threat, it could become less dangerous to humans.

Also, one reason that 1918 Flu was so virulent was because it took hold in the trenches of WW1

One reason Bird Flu has spread so much is that it takes hold and is very virulent in crowded bird cages and houses.

Out in the wilds, it exists, but doesn't seem to be as virulent.

A Chicken Farmer's nightmare

[graywarrior]

7. That does it, I'm moving out of the coop

Duck can have it all to hisself.

[graywarrior]

6. I found this map

I also found that Kimchi is used in Korea to treat bird flu. Must do more research on this.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3429851.stm


http://www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/kimchi/kimchi.cfm

[Cleita]

11. I think Kimchi is used by Koreans to cure a lot of things.

It reminds me of my mother's all purpose cure, chamomille tea.

[graywarrior]

13. Indeed. But I've seen lots of improvements in illness using

strange asian foods.

[Cleita]

14. Oh, I'm not knocking it. I'm all for kitchen pharmacology.

I have been collecting many cures over the years. When I lived in South America right after WWII, it was almost impossible then to get the penicillin and other drugs that doctors needed then. They actually started turning to the native American curanderas for plant cures to fill in for the drugs they lacked.

[graywarrior]

15. Interesting life you have.

[Cleita]

16. Actually, it was different than the average life most others lead

for my first thirty years. I actually had to lie about the "what I did on my summer vacation" essays because the teachers didn't believe what I had really done.

I learned that lesson when I was eight and wrote a little essay about a volcano that was beginning to smoke or come alive in the nearby Andes. She called my mother for a conference about my "lying".

My mother, whose English wasn't all that hot then, decided to let the teacher think I had lied and had an overactive imagination, and she told me that from now on I should listen to what my classmates did and write about that when expected to talk or write about personal things.

I became a boring little kid and no one knew about my other life until I graduated from high school. My father, who came to collect me instead of my mother for a change told everyone he was taking me home to Chile, leaving everyone with their mouths open. No one before ever had an idea.

[graywarrior]

17. Bet you were, and still are, a facinating person to talk with.

[Mike Nelson]

8. This Bird Has Flown

Light a fire.

[Cleita]

10. Right now I'm hearing two owls hooting at each other in separate trees.

Our chickens and doves are fine and the hawks are busy screeching and soaring during the day. My bird feeder has migrating visitors coming these days and none of them seem to be sick of anything. I don't believe there is a pandemic.

[graywarrior]

12. It's just like duck & cover in 2002

I'm sure it exists, but why wait around for something that might or might not happen?