H5N1
Well, it is H5N1 that killed the now infamous swan in Fife and that would have to be the lethal strain...
Everyone's going mad and 'experts' are predicting millions of deaths, but only about 100 people have died during this 'epidemic'. I would like to make it clear that I'm not making little of their deaths - I'm very sorry that even a single person has died, but all I'm saying is that people should calm down.
Obviously if it mutates and can be transmitted from a human to a human, we're in trouble, because it will race around the population. Take London for instance, it has a population of seven million people (Northern Ireland only has a population of about one and a half million - crazy, isn't it?) and they're all packed close together, so if one person gets infected, it will rapidly spread.
Anyway, enough with the scares - this isn't a tabloid blog, this is a reputable broadsheet blog...
David
Everyone's going mad and 'experts' are predicting millions of deaths, but only about 100 people have died during this 'epidemic'. I would like to make it clear that I'm not making little of their deaths - I'm very sorry that even a single person has died, but all I'm saying is that people should calm down.
Obviously if it mutates and can be transmitted from a human to a human, we're in trouble, because it will race around the population. Take London for instance, it has a population of seven million people (Northern Ireland only has a population of about one and a half million - crazy, isn't it?) and they're all packed close together, so if one person gets infected, it will rapidly spread.
Anyway, enough with the scares - this isn't a tabloid blog, this is a reputable broadsheet blog...
David
posted by theChipmunk at 3:49 pm
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