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To: TigerPaw who wrote (255924)	10/17/2005 6:32:12 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572172

I'm not going to worry until some significant human death occurs. Henry Niman has been Chicken Litting this forever. (I did get a good tip out of him on a company that produces vaccine production equipment that has REALLY paid off!) Until some humans die, I'll file it with SARS and the other bio-scares that have come to nothing. Bush may use it if can - I'm sure he wishes it would strike tomorrow so he could "call out the military" as he suggested he would. Then there's Karl Rove, who would plant some Asian chickens in Kansas to get the party started..

To: TigerPaw who wrote (255924)	10/18/2005 2:56:37 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572172

It's higher probability than an asteroid hitting the earth. But the probability is not so high that there is a need to panic the public. Besides, it would probably be best to let the birds around the world get the flu, let it peak as an epidemic, and diminish as is the usual pattern for an epidemic. This should be encouraged before it is easily transmissible. In the mean time let the people work on vaccines and periodicly instruct newly infected areas to stay away from sick birds. That would be great if you could guarantee it won't mutate. However, the more birds who carry the avian flu, the more likely one of those birds will be carrying the regular flu and the mutation will occur. The increasing hysteria on the subject seems designed to provide a distraction from Junior's troubles instead of a legitimate use of health resources, and it will lead to the irrational destruction of much wildlife that may prove to be just the kind of stock, immune to the virus, that will be needed to repopulated the birds once the epidemic has peaked. I don't agree. The same kind of dialogue is occurring in nations all over the planet. There is a global consensus developing that we are not moving fast enough to stave off a pandemic. TP