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Post by static anonymity on Mar 1, 2005 2:11:42 GMT
Not to worry you all, but 72% of us might not be here in a year or so's time, *melodrama* due to a strain of bird flu that's currently sweeping Asia and mutating itself to not only spread to cats and humans, but to evade modern medicine. Vaccines are being made as we speak, but ye may want to be even more careful of catching that winter cold, this year...  Read more here |
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Post by distortion on Mar 1, 2005 2:22:06 GMT
i've seen this on teletext and the news, but talking to you on msn about has got me worried.  |
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Post by static anonymity on Mar 1, 2005 2:38:19 GMT
Sorry! I hadn't heard about it on the news (non-TV-watching-me that I am),but I stumbled across it in the zombie community... And I have to say, it got me worried, too. |
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Post by Graham on Mar 1, 2005 9:33:10 GMT
oh great...something else to be wary of...
*wraps himself in clingfilm*
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Post by Luco El Loco on Mar 1, 2005 20:43:20 GMT
Never had normal flu... so won't be panicking just yet. Panicking is bad for the immune system.  I expect some scientist created it 'accidentally'...  They'll find a way to fix it. They better had anyway! |
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Post by distortion on Mar 2, 2005 0:17:13 GMT
i think thats the problem though, they can't find anything to stop it. and when they think they're making prgress, it changes so it can get around it.. it started a bird thing, its already changed alot to jump to humans. its gonna change alot more in the future.
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Post by Jill on Mar 2, 2005 1:49:04 GMT
I'm not leaving the house if all this is gunna happen! I thought i heard on the radio people were trying to get stuff to help but are only getting it for a certain number of people ...... did that make sense? |
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Post by static anonymity on Mar 2, 2005 2:29:22 GMT
Yeah, it does. In the article, it said that 2 million doses were being made, by order of the govt. But this doesn't mean that only 2 million people can be treated, however. It's more a case of "make up the vaccines. Send off these samples to manufacturers to copy, and thus mass-produce them in preparation for the possibility of it spreading." Hopefully it won't come to that, though. |
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Post by distortion on Mar 2, 2005 11:16:01 GMT
i read on teletext they had 14million doses  they also say 1 in 4 britons could be affected by it eventually, although they are not predicting such a high death-rate. they're also stockpiling vaccines to stop the spread human to human should that occur, and those will be given to police officers etc. people who are out and about more. |
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Post by Anarchy on Mar 12, 2005 10:05:41 GMT
*girly high-pitched scream* God save us oh the humanity!!!
Im not gonna look at chicken in the same way ever again! *faints*
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Post by static anonymity on Mar 13, 2005 19:48:15 GMT
Update:Mortality rate now 80% Will probs hit Britain in 2 years. Vaccines are not against the flu thing itself, but are generic virus vaccines. They can't make a vaccine against this particular one until it's spread further and they've seen what mutations it can go through. Now, who has confidence in the British govt and the NHS, eh? 
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Post by Luco El Loco on Mar 14, 2005 16:18:45 GMT
Maybe it'll clean the place up a bit - look on the bright side.  ;D |
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