dave wrote:
More OT but it seems from this evening's news that bird flu MAY WELL spread to
the (filthy) pigeon and the (flocks of) sparrows. AS I POSTULATED in the
original post.

Wonder how the advocates of these disgusting birds (pigeons) who attacked my
original post will squirm out of it now?

More importantly, can this dozy country wake-up and implement an immediate ban
on garden feeders that attract pigeons? And also an immediate cull of these
filthy birds. Or do we have to wait for it to be endemic first?

Read this article and stop panicking:

"Lottery win more likely than bird flu"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...067213,00.html

Quote - "In China, where the disease is endemic among birds, just 14
infections and 8 deaths have been confirmed by the World Health
Organisation in a population of 1.3 billion people — a rate of one case
per 93 million and one death per 163 million."


David

In article ,
Lobster wrote:
Quote - "In China, where the disease is endemic among birds, just 14
infections and 8 deaths have been confirmed by the World Health
Organisation in a population of 1.3 billion people - a rate of one case
per 93 million and one death per 163 million."

Unless you are in the habit of kissing your pigeons you are very* unlikely to
be infected in this way. The million-times more likely way of your getting
bird flu is by some of those millions of contacts in China (with people
kissing their feathered dinosaurs) getting a version of 'bird-flu' that passes
from human to human.

*Then* you need to panic.

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"Lobster" wrote in message
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Read this article and stop panicking:

"Lottery win more likely than bird flu"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...067213,00.html

It's worse than I thought then. Someone wins the lottery in this country
nearly every week. Sometimes several people...

Blueyonder wrote:
"Lobster" wrote in message
...

Read this article and stop panicking:

"Lottery win more likely than bird flu"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...067213,00.html

It's worse than I thought then. Someone wins the lottery in this country
nearly every week. Sometimes several people...

So?

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:01:58 GMT, Lobster
wrote:

Blueyonder wrote:
"Lobster" wrote in message
...

Read this article and stop panicking:

"Lottery win more likely than bird flu"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...067213,00.html

It's worse than I thought then. Someone wins the lottery in this country
nearly every week. Sometimes several people...

So?

So some Bird Flu Winners can expect to do some big spending, i.e.
eternity.
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