Well, are you???

Personally I am. I don't like things I can't see that can hurt myself or people around me. I am worried what it could do to the country (and world) as a whole...

Hopefully all of the recent 'hype' will have been OTT and it will pass.

Nope not scared. Even in the unlikely event that it becomes a real problem the NHS has learnt from the SARS fiasco (which all turned out to be hype) and has the capability to deal with it.

Even if it doesn't, what're you going to do about it? No point in worrying.

Oh, ok, I'll put away my chemistry set then

I think the NHS would struggle - it does badly enough with "normal" flu.


Tell the 774 who died from SARs it was just hype.

The Negotiator said:

Tell the 774 who died from SARs it was just hype.

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That's very harsh and misleading. It was obvious I didn't mean it like that.

To make it clear to everyone, nobody died from SARS in Britain.

I know what you meant, chill Sorry if you thought I was being mean.

From one who is in the at risk groups, NO! why worry,anyone who is worrying over this is just giving theirselves pain over something man cannot control, if it happens, which the experts say it will at sometime, it happens. For Gods sake enjoy what life you got and let the worrying happen if you catch it.

Steve

It natural order. Every once in a while some plague or other hits us and wipes out a few hundred thousand people. It's natural population control. Nowt you can do about it so why worry?

can you catch if from eating kfc?? , i had one last night and got the trotts now

we all going to die, so might aswell go in a different way to most of the others, might even go down in history

Probably, our local KFC was in the news for selling uncooked chicken, there was a catalogue of previous offences too!

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Probably, our local KFC was in the news for selling uncooked chicken, there was a catalogue of previous offences too!

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I seen that. They served someone with completely uncooked chicken... The idiots that work in there though I'm not surprised.

Gaz, I don't think you can catch bird flu from eating chicken.

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Probably, our local KFC was in the news for selling uncooked chicken, there was a catalogue of previous offences too!

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And it wasn't just the one outlet of KFC either...
They say you can't get bird flu from properly cooked chicken, so if you're in Belfast, I'd avoid KFC!

I am not CURRENTLY scared about the bird flu hype...

I got the trots today, but that may be to do with the Indian I had last night

I thought it was only women who got it, I saw on the news it only affected "birds".

Once they know which strain it is they will be able to develop a vaccine for it, the only problem is how quick they can make 60M batches.

poggy said:

Once they know which strain it is they will be able to develop a vaccine for it, the only problem is how quick they can make 60M batches.

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From what I remember from the news, they won't be making 60million batches, they'll make enough for the "at risk" group and the NHS lot, and I'm not worried about it. Just worried about my parrot

TBH i dont know what the fuss is about.

They're saying its going to kill millions yet has only killed 60 people in two years!

I think we'll start worrying when it actually reaches Britain in 2 years time

i'd like to add that its not been proven if it can be passed from human to human YET but its most unlikly, so will probably only effect people in direct contact with the birds

Ryan, it's very very likely that it will be able to pass from human to human if a pandemic breaks out.

already it has changed, as the H5N1 virus found in romania, is slightly different to the H5N1 virus found in greece. the worry is that someone with human flu catches H5N1, and it mutates so that it passes from human to human, if it does, then millions will die (i am going to stockpile supplies in my spare garage )

What is a pandemic break out, I thought that just meant it crossed borders across the world. Before it can become a pandemic outbreak surely it has to mutate into a disease which can be transferred amongst humans. And for it to mutate doesn't it have to be in a human as a host to mutate and then that person needs to pass it on.

I think they are now worried about a normal flu outbreak as well as these tend to happen every few years.

Still there's not much point being concerned until it actually happens because you can't do anything to stop it.

the japanese have found out that the vaccine 'tamiflu' is useless, it does absolutely nothing