You may have noticed a story
today in the papers about the WHO's admission that there was a human to human transmission of bird flu in Indonesia. Being the resident tin foil hat wearer of Lowbar I thought I'd chime in on what this means to you and me. First, this isn't the first H2H transmission of bird flu but this is the first H2H2H documented, meaning that someone got it from some source (they don't know where yet), gave it to a caregiver who then gave it to other close family members (eight have gotten infected). Although limited H2H clustering has been going on for some time now, the WHO's admission in this case is novel, although they are keeping the pandemic level at a 3 out of 5. What is also significant about the recent cluster is that it possibly from a mammilian strain of H5N1 that is circulating in Asia, meaning that this strain his better suited to latch onto the respiratory system of mammals instead of birds (different temperatures being the hurdle). There is no confirmation that this may be the mammilian friendy strain, just speculation. It's interesting to see the media latch onto this story. It tells me that the decisionmakers are taking this case seriously. If in the days ahead we have further spread in this cluster or other clusters popping up in the area it may be time to worry a tad.
puhleeze. ALREADY there are millions of people around the world dieing, every year, from plain old flu.
please don't let the fascist trick you into worrying about this. haven't you given up enough of your civil rights? don't the fucking pigs have enough power over our lives?
wanna avoid getting sick? wash your fucking hands. 50% of illness can be STOPPED by people just washing their fucking hands.
