Symptoms of the Bird Flu...

Thought I would share this with everyone!!

Got an e-mail that was forwarded to me from a friend, that was relesed by the CDC...it is the symptoms of the new bird flu!! If you experience these...you need to seek immediate medical treatment!!

1) High fever
2) Congestion
3) Nausea
4) Fatigue
5) Aching in the joints
6) An irresistable urge to s**t on someone's windshield!!

Roger

 

I had #2 and #6 driving into work this morning. Should I seek medical advice, ya think?

 

Only if the other symptoms appear. What you have sounds like simple avian road rage, which is only dangerous to other drivers.

 

If i had bird flu i'd lick everyone i met, im not going down alone.

Pandemic is just another word for chill the f*** out before i smack you. I mean if you're gonna get it you'll get it. Don't panic.

 

Hehe...nahhh...I didn't get mad. Just not into driving at 40mph in a 55mph zone.

 

They say that all migratory birds can be the cause of it - hence this slight slant; avian bird flew...
Anyway - where I come from that means pigeons, ducks, swans, geese, and the worst ones of all, those nice white 'little' critters called seagulls that make alarm clocks redundant in the mornings. I've mentioned the simplest solution to the local council and to the embassy of a far eastern country; but they say that would be cruelty to animals, lol... Instead we have to suffer - that's ok...
Don't know if this is adds anything constructive to the topic, but that's what I think.

 

There are one or two other migratory birds you missed in this list

http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/intrnltr/mbta/mbtandx.html ...but I don't think seagulls are one of them. They just "migrate" between Brighton and Portsmouth

 

I just had news yesterday that a close friend of ours died with that last Wednesday.

The scary thing is, it's very similar to what I've been recuperating from (yup, it's already sent me to hospital twice). I think I picked up something really nasty from K.L.

 

I'm sorry to hear that you lost a close friend, Phantom. That's really sad *hugs*

 

I am sorry to hear this.

You take care of yourself.

Gal

 

You missed one:

7) Patients are often "peckish"

 

I had ALL of those symptoms for 8 years while the bill was in White House and Hillary was running the country

 

Thank you good people.

I don't know if it's exactly the 'Bird Flu', as there are a lot of different strains out there, but it's very virulent, and obviously potentially fatal.

@ Goldy:Yeah, I'm still feeling 'seedy'....

 

Don't worry Phantom...in a few days you'll quit feeling so fowl

 

Kay, but I tell ya, it's no poultry matter!

 

Eggsactly...I wasn't yolking around either

 

<*groan!*> Now those last puns, really ruffled me feathers,
....Sorry, gotta fly, heh!, heh!

 

Puns and jokes apart, if the figures I have heard are anywhere near accurate then I can't help but be of the opinion that there's a little bit of a knee jerk reaction and scaremongering going on amid our government agencies and their so called specialist advisors.

The figure I did hear on the radio this week was that it had already killed 60 people in Asia. Now I agree just one death is a tragedy especially for the family of those concerned but after all, Asia is one huge area containing zillions of people, many of whom are living in horrendous conditions that would be deemed as perfect for spreading any contagious disease or illness.

Time will tell of course.

 

People have been getting worried about this for ages. Only very recently when a cases were being reported in Europe did people really start worrying.

Bird flu is confirmed in Greece
Tests confirm deadly bird flu strain in Romania

etc. Anyone who reads the New Scientist or any other scientific journal will have known about this since last year, at least.

 

Yeah, but that's not the only factor.

1. 60 people out of around 120 people known to have caught it. That's like 50% mortality.

2. The facts regarding the other major flu pandemics that happen roughly every 30 or so years, the last of which was in the 60's, is another.

3. And this is the most interesting thing I've heard about it... The way the flu mutates into a form easily transmittable from human to human is by infecting a person who already has the regular flu virus, and the flu genes mixing... that sounds like it could EASILY happen. I mean, birds are going to migrate... They're also looking for birds to come over from Asia via Alaska/Pacific Coast... If someone who owns chickens, turkey, or showbirds has the regular flu and his birds catch the avian flu around the same time, and he gets that as well, that's really all it would take. Not that unplausable, if you ask me.

 

Yeah, there are a lot of reasons to worry about this. The common influenza kills around 40,000 people in America alone each year (if I'm remembering correctly). The H5N1, commonly referred to as bird flu, is very similar to the 1918 strain that killed millions. If this one mutates into something communicable from human to human, it will be bad news. Unlike normal flu, it won't be just the very young/very old/those with compromised immune systems that could fall to this. Many perfectly healthy young people in 1918 caught and died from this, whereas a lot of the old people survived it, because the old people's immune systems had been "trained" over the course of their lives to respond to various diseases. The younger people, however, had systems that were completely taken by surprise, and they could catch that strain of flu in the morning and be dead by nighttime. Something about how their body aggressively fought it and their lungs ended up filling with blood. Also, communities tend to be much more densely populated these days and international travel is more prevalent, plus we may have been doing ourselves a disservice these last couple decades by using so many antibiotics that we've stunted our immune system's ability to adapt. All in all, this is definitely something to keep an eye on, and in my opinion isn't just the typical fear-mongering some people are writing it off as.