It's coming.....
Biff Pileon
29-11-2004, 18:45
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6608053/
Tuesday Heights
29-11-2004, 18:49
Who cares?
Powerhungry Chipmunks
29-11-2004, 18:58
* Runs outside and cuts the head off of every last one of his chickens *
Whew! Safe at last!
Legless Pirates
29-11-2004, 19:03
hmmm chicken
La Terra di Liberta
29-11-2004, 19:05
Who cares?
Yes, just like SARS, who cares? Sure, it will kill you or make you deathly ill but no biggie (SARS).
Dempublicents
29-11-2004, 19:07
Yes, just like SARS, who cares? Sure, it will kill you or make you deathly ill but no biggie (SARS).
SARS was really only deadly in areas with poor health care. Otherwise, it was pretty much just a bad case of the flu.
Since many people don't care about anyone in other countries with poor health care, they often don't care about such diseases in other countries. Sad, but true.
Andaluciae
29-11-2004, 19:07
Global Population Control, nature style...but seriously, if this turns out to be as severe as it seems, any girls up to joining me in a big plastic bubble? With lot's of lysol? And latex...balloons?
La Terra di Liberta
29-11-2004, 19:09
SARS was really only deadly in areas with poor health care. Otherwise, it was pretty much just a bad case of the flu.
Since many people don't care about anyone in other countries with poor health care, they often don't care about such diseases in other countries. Sad, but true.
People in Toronto died from SARS and I wouldn't consider it an area with poor health care.
Legless Pirates
29-11-2004, 19:10
A couple of WEEKS into the SARS threat a friend of mine:
"SARS?"
Dempublicents
29-11-2004, 19:13
People in Toronto died from SARS and I wouldn't consider it an area with poor health care.
People die from the common flu every year as well. However, the vast majority of people in Toronto who contracted SARS did not die. Most who did were those who brought it from an area with poor health care.
Dobbs Town
29-11-2004, 19:15
People in Toronto died from SARS and I wouldn't consider it an area with poor health care.
Expect a lot of back-and-forthing on this one. I also wouldn't consider it as such, but there's a lot of unenlightened folk on these here threads who'll no doubt most vociferously disagree. The sort of people who'd prefer to have their checkups in the equivalent of a four-star hotel, that is.
Presidency
30-11-2004, 16:37
insert bunp here
Demented Hamsters
30-11-2004, 17:24
The article downplays it a bit. The local newspaper here quotes WHO as saying it could kill 100 million, not 20-50 mill.
And with air travel, no country would be safe.
If the article is correct in saying that the virus may kill up to one third of the people it infects, and if it does mutate to become transmissible between humans, it will be on a par with a smallpox epidemic. It's nice to know that while the US government couldn't find the cash to subsidize flu vaccine production it could find the cash to cut taxes on people making six figure incomes.
Kryozerkia
30-11-2004, 17:39
People in Toronto died from SARS and I wouldn't consider it an area with poor health care.
They were elderly people and people who waited too long to get treatment. There is the exception of one nurse...
Gnostikos
30-11-2004, 17:51
Retroviruses are very nasty. If the H5N1 strain mutates into a form that is transmitable from human-to-human, we're going to be royally screwed. It'll be kind of like a Marburg (basically the least harmful form of Ebola) pandemic, but not quite as bad. I don't think people who just blow this off realise the potential danger this could turn out to be. I kind of understand why, though. Something that bad is kind of hard to really grasp. It will prove that just because an organism is more complex, that doesn't make it superior. And viruses aren't even organisms. They're just genetic material and protein.
The True Right
30-11-2004, 18:14
China (not including Hong Kong) actually had a smaller death rate from SARS then Canada did. 6% and 15% respectfully. Stats (http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_07_04/en/)
BTW The US had only 73 cases, no fatalities. Not bad for a country with such a "horrible" healthcare system.
Gnostikos
30-11-2004, 19:02
China (not including Hong Kong) actually had a smaller death rate from SARS then Canada did. 6% and 15% respectfully. Stats (http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_07_04/en/)
BTW The US had only 73 cases, no fatalities. Not bad for a country with such a "horrible" healthcare system.
This isn't SARS. This is the bird flu. And it is much worse. I don't think this thread is about the healthcare systems of different nations--it's about the virus. Or at least I thought it was...
Sumamba Buwhan
30-11-2004, 19:38
good the earths population can use a bit of thinning
Kryogenerica
30-11-2004, 23:36
Don't these "OMG! EVERYONE'S GONNA DIIIEEE!" warnings do the rounds every few years now? :rolleyes:
Hasn't happened yet. I refuse to go psycho paranoid until there are more that a couple of hundred deaths worldwide.
when that happens, though...... :eek: