NationStates Jolt Archive

Okay, I know there has been a lot of hype about the Avian Flu in the news, and that it recently died down. So, to beat a dead horse, what do you think will happen or should be done regarding this virus.

this is a little late. it was all a load of media hocus and scare-mongering to create headlines. several months ago.

I can't really vote for any of these- becasue it's not just avian flu.

Fact is, unpalatable as it may be , one of the "flu's" is going to mutate, make 'the jump' and it is going to get out of control. It happens, and honestly at the moment, even with the technology that we have, we can't stop it.

Contain it - maybe - stop it? No, mother nature is sneakier than all of us combined.

and trying to figure out which of the billion plus viruses that fall in to the influenza catagory is what keeps hundreds of biologists employeed.

We don't know and can't until the mutation occurs and starts impinging on the human population. Many such mutations happen literally evey day, they just aren't suscessfull enough to survive long enough to hit the human interface.

I can't really vote for any of these- becasue it's not just avian flu.

Fact is, unpalatable as it may be , one of the "flu's" is going to mutate, make 'the jump' and it is going to get out of control. It happens, and honestly at the moment, even with the technology that we have, we can't stop it.

Contain it - maybe - stop it? No, mother nature is sneakier than all of us combined.

and trying to figure out which of the billion plus viruses that fall in to the influenza catagory is what keeps hundreds of biologists employeed.

We don't know and can't until the mutation occurs and starts impinging on the human population. Many such mutations happen literally evey day, they just aren't suscessfull enough to survive long enough to hit the human interface.

Clearly we should be building robo-phages that can beat a virus regardless of it's protien coat...

um, yeah. nothings going to happen bird flu is old news. I dont think its even still around.

Some people will get sick, drugs have been be developed.

Fixed.

And yea, this is a little late.