Thanks Henry. So the avian flu has swarms of opportunities to infect humans, but because the human receptors aren't attuned, they only attach in a minuscule fraction of the times they come in contact with a person who is constantly fiddling around with birds.
But, every now and then, one does take, albeit weakly, and then it has an opportunity to recombine with other viruses in that person to form a more virulent form.
If the person infected with the avian flu is simultaneously full of regular human flu, or sars, or common cold, which have a high propensity to hook onto receptors in humans, then the avian flu forms a team with the human flu by joining their DNA together, enabling both virulence and morbidity in one big bang, and away it goes.
I see. Very sneaky and nasty. A kind of biological tag team; one holds you down while the other kicks your head in.
So, let's declare war on birds. No birds = no bugs.
All the chickens and ducks and stuff in the world aren't worth 1 billion dead people. Maybe the Jews had it right about pigs too, since they seem to be part of the opposition team. Out with bacon and pork. Back to eating sheep, beef [provided it is CJD-free], fish and deer. Or, go vegetarian. Vegetarian beats being dead.
Better to stop the jump from bird to person because once the bug has made the jump and is into critical mass mode, it'll be a purely human problem and killing birds will be like shutting the cockpit door and checking granny's nail-clippers at airport security after Osama's gang have bolted through.
Pay all the bird owners twice what their birds are worth, buy their hen houses, and make it illegal to have hens.
Forget about North Korea's silly nuclear bomb programme which is trivial compared with chicken flu. Iraq? Who cares?
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