[fluff]

"Climate change may be a greater threat than terrorism, but a flu pandemic is a more immediate threat than either."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/02/bird_flu/

Let's have some more numbers from Dr Osterholm, just to encourage you. He writes: "It is sobering to realize that in 1968, when the most recent influenza pandemic occurred, the virus emerged in a China that had a human population of 790 million, a pig population of 5.2 million, and a poultry population of 12.3 million; today, these populations number 1.3 billion, 508 million, and 13 billion, respectively. Similar changes have occurred in the human and animal populations of other Asian countries, creating an incredible mixing vessel for viruses. Given this reality, as well as the exponential growth in foreign travel during the past 50 years, we must accept that a pandemic is coming - although whether it will be caused by H5N1 or by another novel strain remains to be seen."

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/avianflu/index.html

 

[$tinkle]

finally, the chinese can be undone by their own intense replication of damn near everything.

looking back at all the other "predicted" pandemics which didn't quite make the grade, perhaps this story is nothing more than something which can be leveraged for more cuddling.

 

[fluff]

looking back at all the other "predicted" pandemics which didn't quite make the grade, perhaps this story is nothing more than something which can be leveraged for more cuddling.

Or it might be something that we should heed but no doubt will not until it's too late and millions have died from unforeseeable events?

 

[$tinkle]

Or it might be something that we should heed but no doubt will not until it's too late and millions have died from unforeseeable events?

this will bode well for the goths, grave diggers, & necropheliacs


"i'd rather light a candle than curse the darkness" - gale snoats, raising arizona

 

[valve bouncer]

My mate was telling me that a big caldera or some crap on Sumatra has started rumbling and that if it blows we're all f*cked. Apparently the Mt St Helens blowjob put 1 cubic kilometre of ash into the air. If this thing goes off in Sumatra they reckon it'll put 2000 cubic kms of ash into the air, enough to cover all of SE Asia from Southern China to Northern Australia in 6 foot of ash. Cheery thought.

See your flu Fluff and raise you Armageddon.

 

[Westy]

See your flu Fluff and raise you Armageddon.

Live each day like it is your last. Or if you are looking for a white trash/biker tattoo "Hooray For Today, Fvck Tomorrow".