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

[Flatcoatluver]

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

[sammy101]

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]

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]

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]

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

[k9krazee]

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

[G535]

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.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

I am VERY MUCH worried! Next to our garden, there is a huge natural pond; Evey year there are hundreds of wild ducks there. Yesterday I saw the last ones leave, flying in "V" formation. They always fly south for the Winter. But they come back next Spring..... , I hope they don't bring this birdflu with them

[Rachel]

Yes, I am. Seems like there is a new location added every day to the list of countries where it has been detected. I never even thought about the wild birds being infected, but that certainly could be the case. I was more worried about the food supply since poultry is my main source of protein.

In Illinois, and specifically in my county and even my city, there have been cases of West Nile Virus. It has made me aware that one can't assume that these illnesses won't touch us because they started somewhere else.