Is your family doing anything to prepare for an Avian Flu Pandemic?

[Divinus Arma]

It's certainly a matter of time before bird flu is global. Whether it muates or not is a completely different question.


Just curious. What if it does mutate? What is going on with your family? Are you doing anything? If so, what?

[Samurai Waki]

There was a case reported in Poland as well... honestly, unless someone drops dead of it in the US I'm not gonna do much to prepare for it, don't eat too much chicken anyways.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Nothing at all. This is just another example of modern civilisation panicking unduly.

Even if it does mutate, the odds of it becoming as virulent in humans as in birds are tiny.

I'm far more likely to get hit by a bus this morning - or getting run over by some idiot trying to buy up all the baked beans.

[The_Doctor]

Go crazy broardway style.

Bird Flu, Bird Flu, it a hellofa disease...

[Devastatin Dave]

Regular flu has killed a hell of a lot more just this year than the # of bird flu cases. Just the latest way for governments to keep the citizens scared and waste tax dollars. The levees gonna break oh my!!!

[Shadow]

I think my government had done all the necessary protection so there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

[Dutch_guy]

Not really worried, no sign of the virus has been found in humans and birds in Holland... well not yet

[Soulforged]

Not really the place where I live is pretty much a quiet and boring neighbor (well except for some parties at night ). In general Buenos Aires is not used to natural disasters so we don't really care, this could be bad, but that's how things are down here.

[KukriKhan]

Floods never happen in your neighborhood? (note: link is a .pdf file)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/...df/freeman.pdf

Buenos Aires has indeed been blessed of late. I caution against complacency, though.