Is anyone nervous about Bird Flu.....??

**carole** · 10-22-2005, 10:29 PM

There is an awful lot of media coverage right now on the TV and local paper about bird flu, I am not sure if anyone else has posted or not, but wondered how everyone feels about it all, personally I feel quite frightened , even though they are saying NZ is one of the safest countries to be in with regard to Bird Flu, something to do with the migration of the birds along the shorelines.

They are also talking about a pandemic of flu like the spanish flue in 1918, this does not seem just simple scaremongering tactics, but in all honesty a real threat to the human species.

I really do feel worried about it all, am I just a worry wart, or do I really have something to worry about, what do you all think?

**Flatcoatluver** · 10-22-2005, 10:35 PM

I am so nervous about my ducks, but i am getting rid of them anyway but still.

**sammy101** · 10-22-2005, 10:38 PM

I'm actually not worried about it. I dont come in contact with birds very often.They never come in the yard because of the dogs,and there are some at the ponds we walk at but we stay away because those geese are vicious

**Corinna** · 10-22-2005, 10:39 PM

I'm a talk show junkie and most of them are having guests on that are so angry at the governments and the media for doing the scaremongering. Several have had the scientest working on it and they are frustrated also . They claim its not going to get so bad. And even if so they should have a vaccine in time.

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 10-22-2005, 10:47 PM

Not yet, but I will definitley be when the virus finds a way to transfer from human to human, rather the just bird to human. I heard on the news that scientists are estimating that at least 50 million people will die before they find a cure or a vaccine for us.....

**catnapper** · 10-22-2005, 10:48 PM

Yikes, I never even heard of it til this thread! Maybe they don't worry about it in my region?

**k9krazee** · 10-22-2005, 10:51 PM

I have been worried, but will become really worried when it starts passing from human to human...

**G535** · 10-22-2005, 11:21 PM

I don't think a lot of people really know what a pandemic can do. If it happens human stupidity is going to kill many people, I think you all know some of the people who go visiting when they have flu or cold symptoms and spread all the germs around as many people as they can. As for being worried, I guess I'm too old and it'll probably be quicker and less painful than hanging on for years with chronic arthritis.

**.powerful** · 10-24-2005, 02:18 PM

You are certainly not alone carole. I am also *very* concered about this. It is so scary.

**Kfamr** · 10-24-2005, 02:58 PM

I've never even heard of it?

**carole** · 10-24-2005, 03:49 PM

Seriously kay you have never even heard of it,? that is two people now, I cannot believe the media is keeping quiet about it over there, still maybe our media is overplaying it who really knows, all I know is it could happen, hopefully it will not, I feel the pandemic is more of a concern really,as the likelihood of that happening is more real to my way of thinking.