The Bird Flu is coming to kick all of our asses!

It could take six months to manufacture adequate vaccine stocks, and current stockpiles may be useless because the flu virus has mutated, said David Nabarro, U.N. coordinator for global readiness against an outbreak.

He said "very high priority" efforts were under way to raise manufacturing capacity so that a vaccine could be produced more quickly once a virus emerged that could cause a pandemic.

Experts say the virus is mutating steadily and there are fears that if it takes a form which spreads quickly among humans it could kill millions.

"We do not know what the genetic makeup of the eventual mutant virus will be, therefore we cannot be sure that existing vaccines that have been stored up will be effective," Nabarro said.

Outbreaks of bird flu at the weekend in Romania and Turkey triggered fears that the highly contagious disease could advance into Europe.

Experts there have not yet determined whether the cases are from the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, which has killed millions of birds and 65 people in Asia since 2003. Officials have played down the likelihood.

Romanian authorities said on Tuesday they had found no new cases of avian flu but would continue culling poultry in the Danube delta near the Black Sea to prevent the disease from spreading.

Suspect Cases

Three ducks which tested positive for bird flu on Friday remain the only birds in which disease antibodies have been detected. But Romanian officials said testing of suspect cases would go on with the help of European Union experts.

"There was no other positive case," Agriculture Ministry spokesman Adrian Tibu said.

He said EU experts were helping local scientists isolate the virus and would send samples to Britain to discover whether they are dealing with the H5N1 strain.

Results of British laboratory tests are expected by the end of the week.

Turkey warned that it faced a high risk of further outbreaks of avian flu as it lies in the path of many species of migrating birds, which can carry the virus long distances.

The 25-nation European Union, along with a number of other countries, banned imports of birds from Turkey on Monday.

France called on Tuesday for European Union health and foreign ministers to meet soon to coordinate their reaction to the spreading bird flu virus.

"We can see that the H5N1 virus, this bird flu virus, is spreading and is arriving at our doors," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on France 2 television.

A European Commission spokesman said EU health ministers would meet informally on October 20-21.

In Bulgaria, authorities said on Tuesday they were testing three birds found dead in the north of the country but so far there were no indications the virus had crossed its borders. Test results were expected in about a week.

Egypt banned imports of live birds and tightened up quarantine controls at airports. It also canceled the annual bird-hunting season to minimize contacts between hunters and the migrant birds they shoot.

The United Arab Emirates banned imports of live birds and feathers from Turkey and Romania, and Saudi Arabia, the Gulf region's biggest economy, said it had prepared an emergency plan to ban imports from any country where an outbreak of bird flu had been confirmed.

Some research has found that smoking at least a bowl of good herb every day will lower the risk of becoming infected.
Also, if coupled with wild sex at least twice a day will protect you and your partner for a year.
The World Health Agencies have asked that EVERYONE go out and Fuck their brains out tonight.

 

Columbus' fault.

 

... and the mexicans.

 

I think your right Man.

 

I just want to kill all the birds and bbq them.

 

why the fuck don't we just make a vaccine out of the flesh samples of ww1 soldiers who died from spanish bird flu


it's the same class of flu


you'd still get sick, but the level of fatality would likely be lower...

 

i tried to tel all of you the end was comming, bill cosbys pissed now!

 

LOL LOL What type of Sauce?

 

I blame it all on YAHOO!!!!

 

that's scary shit man. I'm already way too fucking paranoid about shit. Now we have a bird flu pandemic that is coming, on top of all the other shit that is happening now. I'm gonna just go hide out in a hut somewhere in the mountains for a while. shit! Seriously, if this bird flu just starts spreading, and someone gets it, they don't stand a fucking chance, they'll get sick and die in a few days just because they were fucking breathing! Damn the bird flu, what a frickin jerk.

 

you'll be ok Mind Gardens...it'll take the old and sick first....

oooh.... sorry Wiz...

 

hmm

 

all humans will be exterminated while the rest of the planet is left intact to recover....... oh yeah, the birds will die to...damn birds!

 

Thanks pabsy.

 

and which god told you that?

 

its the fault of those chinese sons of bitches

 

yeah...
and indeed we can blame yahoo for this sofia.
*sigh*

 

absolutley

 

You told me that Nelo, you are my god!

 

well that's something...nelo don't even know he's god, no wonder why we're all gonna die by the birdiehopflu.