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Cutting Through the Bird Flu Hype

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by Adam at 12:11 PM on November 28, 2005

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A pair of docs from Vanderbilt cut the crap and tell it like it is: you’re simply not in much danger from bird flu. At least, not yet.

The bottom line here is “don’t panic.” There are very good reasons that the medical establishment is worried about the possibility of a pandemic, but it’s nothing to get yourself worked up over right now. It could happen next month, or it could be another twenty years. They just don’t know.

The most interesting find in this article for me is the fact that modern science has traced the three flu pandemics of the twentieth century (even the infamous “Spanish flu” of 1918) back to bird flus originating in Asia. Apparently this thing rears its head every so often, and we’re just now catching on.

(Props: Notes from Dr. RW)

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  1. Yeah, people get so worked up on very few facts. I had to laugh after Katrina hit and I started seeing all the hypotheses as to why this hurricane season has been so intense. Global warming, my fanny. ::snorts:: It just happens, people.

    Comment by Dawn — November 28, 2005 @ 8:31 pm

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    [Source: 8 Ways to Sunday] quoted: A pair of docs from Vanderbilt cut the crap and tell it like it is: you’re simply not in much danger from bird flu. At least, not yet.

    Trackback by Bird Flu Monitor — November 30, 2005 @ 3:33 pm

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  5. I can’t even hallucinate how much fear ABC television is about to instill on America, when it runs it’s “Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America,” scare you to death programming on the 9th…

    Hope the airline industry is ready to take one on the chin from this storyline

    Comment by Bird Flu Virus — May 4, 2006 @ 9:25 am

  6. From the movie summary of Fatal Contact on abclocal.go.com:

    The movie follows Avian Flu through its mutation into a virus transmittable from human to human.

    That’s just great. Way to go with the responsible programming, ABC. Then again, how many people really take TV movies seriously?

    Comment by Adam Messinger — May 4, 2006 @ 4:14 pm

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