Kentucky Fried Chicken Flu
I’ve never been a fan of these epidemics they always talk about in the news, you know those catastrophic epidemics that threaten to wipe out all man kind? There’s a large collection of plagues that have fallen far short of their ominous predictions, SARS, Mad Cow disease, West Nile Virus and of course Bird Flu or as I like to call it, “the flavor of the week”. A matter of fact one of my early posts was a commentary on the constant flow of epidemics ravaging the world that all happen to have “flu like symptoms”.
Being the flavor of the week, Bird Flu is the terror gripping third world economies, destroying the poultry markets of poor nations and annoying me every night on the news. Here’s what I read today…
A two-year old Egyptian boy contracted the potentially deadly bird flu strain, bringing to 26 the number of people to be diagnosed with the disease since it appeared in the country last year, the Health Ministry said Monday.
26 PEOPLE!!!! Gimmie a break, more people die from crossing Ahmed Helmy street in Egypt than Kentucky fried Chicken Flu. I’m more likely to die from a pimple on my ass. As for the second paragraph…..
Youssef Mohammed Mahmoud from the southern city of Aswan was admitted to a hospital there on Friday, suffering from fever and muscle pain, ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine told the state news agency, MENA.
Amazing, I was suffering from fever and muscle pain on Thursday, maybe I should offer myself to the medical authorities for research!….Oh Wait, I forgot muscle pain is a symptom of fever and fevers don’t mean a damn thing! Or Maybe everyone with Bird Flu should do what my doctor friend told me to do, “drink Gatorade, eat some soup and call me if you poop alot”.
Besides the fact that millions die from the common flu every year and besides the fact that Bird Flu has killed less people than you find in a crowded elevator, just remember there’s nothing you can do about it anyways. They wont know it was Bird Flu until they do the autopsy and test for it, up until that point no one will suspect anything beyond the common flu.
So do yourselves a favor, have fun, live your life and eat as much chicken as humanly possible because its delicious! Personally if I somehow end up dying from Bird Flu, I want my grave filled with an assortment of fried chicken from all around the world but only white meat! Consider this my last will and testament.
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The flu bug mutates every 90 so years. It’s been doing it for the past several millennia, last time the bug mutated, it whipped out 20-40 million people (Influenza Pandemic of 1918). SARS, Mad Cow and West Nile are like the plague, something that happened out of the blue. They were contained, that’s why it didn’t spread and million didn’t die. If the health officials didn’t take them too seriously, you’ll be writing a blog about how they didn’t do anything.
Avian Influenza is not flavor of the week, first human case was recorded in 1997.
HIV/AIDS was like this and now we know what it can do.
False.
False.
Jina- 36,000 people die in the U.S. aloe from the common flu each year and its much higher in countries outside the U.S. with higher population density, less availability to the flu vaccine and less exposure to proper medical services.
And as far as your second objection, would you mind explaining to me why they would test a human being for birdflu, which has killed 26 people in egypt vs. regular flu which kills over 50,000 in that country, when both flus have identical symptoms.
If i’m dying of Bird Flu one day I’ll have the doctors bring me a fried chicken breast on my death bed and think to myself “wow what are the chances that i would get this completely obscure disease that less than .000000000000000001% of the population gets”? “Why me and not that guy Jina”!?
36k is an exaggeration
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People in the developing world don’t die from flu that much, they know how to treat it. You don’t need modern science or technology to treat flu. Another case of idiots relying on technology to treat something that can be treated easily.
Your views on the Bird Flu are very unsophisticated. It is out there brewing in nature and nothing can stop it.
The fact that it is killing few at this point is the normal pattern. It is in the process of mutating. This process takes several years in nature.
One day soon it will become easily tarnsmittable between humans, and it will explode, and go around the world (carried by people traveling on airliners) in less than 90 days according to health officials.
There will not be enough vaccine or Tamiflu available anywhere in the world. 50-100 million people are likely to die according to health officals everywhere in the world.
It is foolish to think the threat is not real… and huge!
You sound like the X-Files!
Didn’t they say something similar when the mad cow disease broke out, though? I literally thought I was going to die, sometimes medical organizations take advantage of these types of outbreaks in order to sell as many drug subscriptions as possible.
I’m not saying the threat is neither real nor huge, I’m just saying sometimes it’s a false alarm and people end up obsessing about something that isnt’ as big as people make it out to be. The mad cow thing in the Gulf was really huge, I remember people turning into vegetarians for it, including some of my family members, and I remember the amount of people who would always double check at hospitals. Yet not a lot of people really got affected by it …
When I was in Morocco I remember reading about bird flu deaths somewhere, I’m not sure where, but the victim # was alarming… dozens of people died from it, I can’t believe it’s still out there and infecting that many people all at once.
Esra’a, the reason mad cow didn’t spread is because it was contained really fast. Just like SARS was.
After China, Toronto was the SARS hotspot. All the hospitals were in lockdown and anyone who went near it was put in quarantine. Health officials did a wonderful job in containing it.
Pharmaceuticals do benefit from these things sometimes, but for most things, there are no medicine available to cure them, so the pharmaceutical companies have nothing to gain.
Ali is right about the 50-100 million number. During the Influenza Pandemic in 1918, 20-40 million died. Remember that people didn’t have good transportation system, yet that many people died because of the flu spread spread so fast. Imagine now, if one person gets it, it will become a global issues within 24 hours.
LOL @ all of u except Esra’a of course
LOL @ the idiot who can’t back up anything he says.
Dont worry about me, i can back up my info just fine. Everyone is busy citing people who have confirmed their fears. When reminded that nothing came of Mad Cow disease or SARS or Praire Dog virus or the redistribution of small pox or Ebola virus or asteroids hitting the earth or Y2k or any other threat to all man kind, they say “oh well they were contained but would have become something”. Here are links to respect health organizations who back up exactly what I’m saying
The CDC says “bird flu not a threat to humans”
David King, British Government Chief Scientist “not a threat”
Anthony Fauchi USA today- ‘Lot has to happen’ for bird flu threat to explode
theres my back up captain!
People took Mad Cow and SARS seriously and it was taken care of.
Y2K was taken care of 4 years before anyone knew about the problem, but the idiots went nuts for no reason.
Ebola killed 25% of all gorillas in the world before someone realized it and did something about it.
Small pox whiped out millions before it was contained.
You want to know one bug that people didn’t take seriously? HIV/AIDS… uneducated idiots back then said… it’s only a bug that homos get… who cares… yaaa that worked out real well.
Mini asteroid hits the earth every 90 years, last time it hit, it whipped out good portion of Siberia. I wish it had hit some where near Egypt, we won’t be having this idiotic conversation. Planet killers come ever 65 some odd million years… don’t have to worry about it.
Did you even read your source?
http://www.physorg.com only gives out the numbers based on the dead to the entire population of a country. The dead were quarantined right after finding out they had it when they were alive. So them passing on the bug was limited. The math is flawed. Real math would have to deal with those who died when they got it and how many survived because, if they weren’t quarantined, they can easily pass it to another person.
Getting the bug is hard but ones you have it, spreading it is easy.
Awareness is whats preventing the bug from spreading.
They never say it won’t happen. We need the awareness to keep this shit from spreading.
I don’t know about you, but I sure as hell don’t want the repeat of how they dealt with AIDS.
Wow, I find myself on Jina’s side of the argument. The problem with a disaster that never happens is that people think it was a false alarm rather than vigilance…
It is illogical to try to have it both ways, if the threat is real and huge, you cannot think of it as a false alarm.
I believe D.B. Shobrawy is doing damage by quoting people out of context saying Bird Flu is no problem. The US CDC is very concerned http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ as is the the World Heath Org (see http://www.who.int/topics/avian_influenza/en/)
D.B. Shobrawy is not more knowledgeable than the people working at these organizations.
The reality is that Bird Flu is brewing in nature right now, as it does. This is the natural progression of the influenza. It may seem like a false alarm to those who do not understand the nature of the virus, but it will mutate, there will be “crossover,” and it is likely that many million will die.
Esther(Iran) is totally correct… vigilance is needed… (and education about the threat as well).
The only thing needed is awareness. But what many of you seem to be implying here is paranoia.
Pandemics happen about once every hundred years, were due. Esther (Iran) is correct, “The problem with a disaster that never happens is that people think it was a false alarm rather than vigilance…â€. Y2K is a perfect example.
People turn awareness into paranoia. Y2K was the best example. If they knew that the problem was fixed long time before it 2000 hit. If the people actually listened to the experts instead of just the headlines. They wouldn’t have bought thousands of dollar worth of canned food and stocked it in their basement. People don’t listen. They listen to the first sentence and then turns the TV off and go do stupid things.
You can’t blame these scientists or the media that reports it, people’s stupidity is what you should blame. These people just need to watch the news past the headlines. That’s all and problem solved.
Another example that we Torontonians experienced was during the SARS crisis. If they had listened to the news, they would have knew how it was contained within 24 after it appeared in Toronto.
Jina you are entitled to your opinion, i’m fine with that, however dont respond to articles and facts with your personal opinion shrouded as fact.
36,000 is not an exaggeration its a CDC fact. Here is that in print on the CDC website.
Asteroids hitting the earth? You claim it happens every 90 years as if they are on a time table. In fact an asteroid has never been proven to strike the earth its just a theory and a weak one. This Encyclopedia actually states such claims as “Fiction”. you can read that too if you want. As far as the asteroid that “destroyed half of siberia” Hilarious. You are talking about the Tunguska explosion of 1908 and actually there is no evidence it was an asteroid, that is just a theory but one of the weaker theories because there is no impact crater. You can read that here. Also Siberia is a land mass of 13,000,0000 sq Km the, the Tunguska explosion in Siberia only flattened 2,000 square Km of trees. Sorry not half of Siberia like you claim. You will find that in the same article.
Yes Ebola killed a bunch of monkeys but there is no vaccine to protect humans, only one for monkeys, none was ever discovered so did they work hard and contain it (which you may remember was touted as being the deadliest, easiest to pass disease) or did it just stop showing up in our headlines. You can read that here
SARS and Mad Cow, VERY little information is available on how they contained these diseases, the best estimates are quarantines which i find odd for a disease that threatens to be a pandemic. I dont think they became less dangerous, just less news worthy.
As far as Y2k. It was first heard about in 1995, you are suggesting it was fixed in 1991? No matter what the case, People didnt go nuts because they were so knowledgeable about computers, they didnt sit home and discover the problem. The news makers said it would end the world everyday from 1996 until past the time the clock struck mid night. The people were in fear because the News told them to be afraid. That is my point with all of these catastrophes, they are at worst mildly dangerous. We have been told they are life threatening and you believe it.
Anyways, i provide evidence and articles to back up what i’m saying but you seem to have an objection for every article, claim or piece of evidence without any evidence of your own, you seem to have an answer for everything. Which is really frustrating, I cant tell if you really factually disagree with me or you just like being argumentative and acting like you know everything. And your ability to not see the sarcasm and satire in my article is priceless, maybe I should write in Tamil so you can understand it more clearly.
Yes, people had nukes thousands of years ago and created all those craters on Earth with those nukes. Ohh nm they dug those holes and elaborately melted sand into glass and deverted water into them to form giant lakes. Yup, humans been doing this since the dawn of time.
Ebola didn’t kill monkeys, and I never said it did. Stop making up shit.
Are you saying none was discovered on humans? Source
Just because you can’t find the information doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I live in Toronto, I know how the city was when SARS hit. There are tones publications that documented it.
CDC has something… maybe if you searched CDC on SARS while you were searching it for flu, maybe you may have came up with something.
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/transcripts/t030329.htm
Try 1984. Don’t ask me for source because it’s like giving a source to prove that there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. Most modern computers by the early 1990s were all Y2K complaint. It was the older UNIX servers that had the issue and they all used ancient servers.
Maybe if you had clicked on the links I gave, you may have noticed the source I gave. Maybe if you can debate the points I made about your source then we can go some where, but you don’t want to do that or you can’t. Whatever the case, don’t complain when you don’t debate my points.
you “LOL @ all of u except Esra’a of course” was amazing way of debating me.
That’s what you think about me, I never said that. I linked the source when I first refuted your claims.
Satire, only in your eyes.
While you are at it, find a translator so they can translate it into English so I can understand it.