Bird Flu hype - reality perspective

[oblivious]

I had a very unusual flu last week. Could have been bird flu for all I know, but I didn't visit a hospital, so no one will ever know. It went away in 3 days. How many other millions might have caught bird flu but just treated it as a normal flu. Maybe it just kills 2% of people who get it, just like other flu epidemics.

Bird Flu May Be More Common, Less Deadly

By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer 12 minutes ago

...it's likely that many people who get it don't become seriously ill and quickly recover.

...The new study involved 45,476 randomly selected residents of a rural region where bird flu is rampant among poultry — Ha Tay province west of Hanoi. More than 80 percent lived in households that kept poultry and one-quarter lived in homes reporting sick or dead fowl.

A total of 8,149 reported flu-like illness with a fever and cough, and residents who had direct contact with dead or sick poultry were 73 percent more likely to have experienced those symptoms than residents without direct contact.

The researchers said between 650 and 750 flu-like cases could be attributed to direct contact with sick or dead birds. While most patients said their symptoms had kept them out of work or school, the illnesses were mostly mild, lasting about three days.

By contrast, most of the more than 140 cases linked to bird flu and reported to the World Health Organization since January 2004 have been severe — killing more than half the patients.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu_study;_ylt=A9G_Rx9mFMNDJDIAOhJa24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE-

[upi402]

1. When the members of the cabal stand to profit...

no holds are barred as they apply a thick coat of evil.
I really hope there's a hell for Republican betrayers of democracy.