The very best thing that could happen to the world is if around 50-60% of the population died off.
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Anonymous2005-10-14 14:00
if i got the flu ill fly to amerikka to spread it.
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Anonymous2005-10-14 18:17
asia already had it.
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Anonymous2005-10-14 21:29
>>4 I don't think any previous flu will provide resistance to the bird flu.
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Anonymous2005-10-15 17:24
I doubt it'll do much (overall). HK/China already went through a H5N1 scare a good few years ago and they managed to contain the infection despite all that bureaucracy. Not to say that influenza isn't scary, but that H5N1 isn't like the new ebola the media is making it out to be.
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Anonymous2005-10-16 3:14
>>10 I think the scare you are refering to was SARS not H5N1. SARS was knew and had not been observed before. (See http://www.answers.com/sars for background on SARS).
H5N1 is yet another flu. There is a long history of flu jumping from animals to humans and wiping out a good percentage of the human population. The 1918 Spanish flu is a good example, it resulted in over 20 million deaths world wide. The Spanish flu was also a bird flu.
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Anonymous2005-10-16 6:06
>>11
The answer is clear. Let's all eat cows and bambis. Hell, I swore off chicken before I knew of any bird flus. Self-preservation at work.
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Anonymous2005-10-16 10:27
>>11
No, I'm referring to H5N1 specifically. HK had it in 1997 or 1998 (can't remember). The government just ended up eradicating a lot of chickens and paying market price to the chicken farms. Only like a few people died.
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Anonymous2005-10-17 2:59
>>13 I (>>11) stand corrected. http://www.who.int/csr/don/2004_01_15/en/ has details on avian flu and H5N1. It contains a telling comment about HK in 1997, "Most influenza experts also agree that the prompt culling of Hong Kong’s entire poultry population in 1997 probably averted a pandemic."
This time around I don't think they'll manage to wipe out entire bird populations in infected areas.
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Anonymous2005-10-17 3:42
Unfortunately, the current hotbeds of H5N1 aren't anywhere as organized as Hong Kong.
Indonesia? Vietnam? Hah!
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Anonymous2005-10-25 15:57
>>12
The Spanish Flu actually tranferred from Bird to Pig to Human.
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Anonymous2005-10-28 9:53
New plan: Kill all birds, all pigs and all humans.