Title: Hn51 World Tour
Description: Strain makes its way across continent
Description: Strain makes its way across continent
El Matador - October 20, 2005 12:39 AM (GMT)
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| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia told the EU on Wednesday it had found the deadly strain of avian flu in birds in a region south of Moscow, marking the steady westwards march of a virus scientists fear could trigger a pandemic. The European Commission said Russia had identified the H5N1 bird flu strain about 200 kms (124 miles) south of Moscow in the Tula region, next to a lake with numerous wild ducks. The deadly H5N1 strain -- which has killed more than 60 people in Asia since 2003 and forced the slaughter of thousands of birds -- has also been discovered in Turkey and Romania. As European countries geared up their response, Britain said it planned to buy enough vaccine to protect the entire population in case the virus mutates into a strain capable of killing millions of people. And Germany said it would confine all live poultry to their pens to prevent them from coming into contact with migrating birds, believed by some to be carrying the virus from Asia. Russia had already said it had bird flu in Siberia and eastern Russia. But Wednesday's announcement marked the first time the virus had spread west of the Ural mountains, which separate Asian from European Russia. The Russian agriculture ministry said 220 domestic fowl died of the disease last week in the village of Yandovka. Authorities imposed a quarantine and ordered the culling of 3,000 poultry. Bird flu has also been discovered on a Greek Aegean island, but tests have yet to establish whether it is the H5N1 strain. Romania, where the presence of H5N1 in a Danube delta village was identified last week, said further tests on dead birds from another village had proved positive. The European Commission says risks of a human influenza pandemic are growing and has advised member states to stockpile anti-viral drugs. Sixteen EU states have placed orders for them. EU foreign ministers declared bird flu a "global threat" on Tuesday. But on Wednesday, the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) sought to calm fears. "For the time being there is no reason to panic in Europe," Zsuzsanna Jakab, head of the centre, told a news conference. "The risk for citizens to have this virus is minimal." |
Steveo - October 20, 2005 03:02 AM (GMT)
rad, its been too long since theres been mass deaths. We need to cut down the world population a bit
Synopsis - October 20, 2005 03:18 AM (GMT)
Disease epidemics is natures way of saying Stop breeding you fucktards!
Fez - October 24, 2005 04:53 AM (GMT)
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| Britain has confirmed that a quarantined parrot died of the same virulent strain of bird flu that has ravaged Asia and recently spread to Europe. The Agriculture Department reported Sunday that the H5N1 strain killed the bird, which had recently been imported from Suriname on South America's northeast coast – an area thought to be free of avian influenza. The parrot was part of a shipment of 148 birds that arrived on September 16 and were quarantined with 216 birds from Taiwan. Agriculture officials suspect the parrot caught the virus from the Asian birds. "I think that the only thing that we can do now – and we have got to do it very quickly – is to suspend the wild bird trade until this crisis is over," said Lawrence Rose, of Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Agriculture officials said tests showed the strain had more in common with the one that has killed millions of birds and 61 people in Asia than the variant that has been confirmed in recent weeks in Europe. The country's chief veterinarian, Debby Reynolds, said all the birds came into contact with the parrot have been killed. Some of the Taiwanese birds that died before the parrot are being tested, she said. Reynolds said the discovery doesn't affect Britain's status of being free of avian influenza. The European Union is currently considering a ban on the import of wild birds, which the British government urged on Saturday. EU officials have said they expect to make a decision by Tuesday. So far, imports are banned only from those countries that have confirmed cases of the H5N1 strain. World's health ministers converge on Ottawa The H5N1 strain first broke out two years ago in China, Vietnam and Thailand, then spread throughout Southeast Asia. Infected birds have turned up in recent weeks in Russia, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Romania Turkey and Croatia. It's suspected in cases found in Greece, Macedonia and Sweden. FROM Oct. 22, 2005: Sweden detects bird flu in duck Thousands of birds have been killed to prevent the spread of the disease, while Europe is on a full H5N1 alert. The deadly strain spreads easily among birds, but is hard for people to catch from infected birds. World health officials fear that it will mutate to a form that jumps easily from human to human, causing a global pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people. International health ministers will be meeting in Ottawa during the week to plan their strategy for the possibility of a global pandemic. "We need to prepare to prevent a pandemic, if we can at all do that," said the federal health minister, Ujjal Dosanjh. "And then if it does happen, we need to be prepared to deal with it in terms of anti-virals and vaccines." |
My whole family is in England at the mo :(
Steveo - October 24, 2005 05:06 AM (GMT)
Only a matter of time till the world population is culled. About time if you ask me.
Hannoir - October 24, 2005 05:42 AM (GMT)
The problem is that the wrong people may be culled.
Natural selection gone wrong.
Natural selection gone wrong.
the oob - October 24, 2005 06:32 AM (GMT)
If they die of the bird flu, then from an evolutionary standpoint they are the 'wrong people'.
"By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
"By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
Fez - October 24, 2005 07:55 AM (GMT)
Thats the shitty thing about "world population culling" its all fine and dandy to start saying "oh hey look on the brightside, there will be less people to line up behind when you are waiting for your Turkish kebab" but when it starts killing people you know and your loved ones, or even YOU, thats when it sucks.
EDIT: Its also pretty damn selfish
EDIT: Its also pretty damn selfish
El Matador - October 24, 2005 08:40 AM (GMT)
Well I was counting on AIDS to wipe out the Homosexuals, Mad Cow Disease to kill off those who are inclined to commit beastiality and Cancer to kill off surfers. But now Bird Flu looks like its going to fuck everyone once and for all.
This is a very strange post.
This is a very strange post.
maniacnymph - October 24, 2005 08:48 AM (GMT)
im so glad pandas arent birds. it'd suck if we had to start killing pandas.
Steveo - October 24, 2005 09:12 AM (GMT)
Its not selfish, if its your time its your time. Thats how I see it. If I die from Birdflu well thats just the way it is. Not much I can do about it is there :)
Fez - October 24, 2005 09:34 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (sloanie @ Oct 24 2005, 08:40 PM) |
| Well I was counting on AIDS to wipe out the Homosexuals, Mad Cow Disease to kill off those who are inclined to commit beastiality and Cancer to kill off surfers. But now Bird Flu looks like its going to fuck everyone once and for all. This is a very strange post. |
Im a surfer?
Do you wish Cancer upon me?
Or did you mean smokers?
El Matador - October 24, 2005 12:17 PM (GMT)
I am jealous of surfers and their ability to pull women while contributing nothing to the economy.
Fez - October 24, 2005 08:55 PM (GMT)
:lol:
Thats rich coming from you (the ability to pull women bit)
Thats rich coming from you (the ability to pull women bit)
El Matador - October 24, 2005 09:11 PM (GMT)
I don't pull women. I collect them. There's a difference.
Hannoir - October 25, 2005 03:50 AM (GMT)
also just read that the EU are considering banning all wild bird imports into any member state.
doh.
doh.
Yeliah - October 25, 2005 07:09 AM (GMT)
Honestly. Sanitary Masks. Crates of bottled water. Latex gloves. Machine Gun. I'm set.
Happy Ahmed - October 25, 2005 07:12 AM (GMT)
We haven't had a good plague in years. I'm a little disappointed that ebola wasn't more popular. That was a good one.
Yeliah - October 25, 2005 08:59 PM (GMT)
Apparently they've rekindled the Spanish Flu which wiped out about...I think it was 3000 of the NZ population around 1914/1918 (I forget). Because the Spanish Flu had links to a similar Avian Flu Virus, they think that by rekindling the old one, they'll be able to work out some sort of solution.
A Final Solution, perhaps?
A Final Solution, perhaps?
Fez - November 25, 2005 12:45 AM (GMT)
I had to post this here
the oob - November 25, 2005 09:49 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Yeliah) |
| they think that by rekindling the old one, they'll be able to work out some sort of solution. A Final Solution, perhaps? |
That got a laugh out of me, kudos.
Hannoir - January 10, 2006 03:59 AM (GMT)
spread to turkey now, good and proper.
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| Worried Turks head to hospital for bird flu tests 10.01.06 1.00pm DOGUBAYAZIT, Turkey - Turkey reported a spike in suspected bird flu cases among people across the country today as fears grew that the deadly disease was sweeping westward towards mainland Europe. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said victims appear to have contracted the virus directly from infected birds, allaying fears it was now passing dangerously from person to person. The Turkish authorities reported 14 people have tested positive for the deadly bird flu virus, including three children from the same family in an impoverished region of eastern Turkey who died last week. Bird flu is known to have killed 76 people since the latest outbreak emerged in late 2003. Human cases had been confined to east Asia until the virus was identified in Turkey last week. Worried Turks rushed to hospitals for tests for the virus, which kills more than half of those it infects. Thirteen children were among 23 people undergoing tests for bird flu in Istanbul, a teeming city of 12 million which is the country's commercial hub and the gateway to Europe from Asia. Experts fear the deadly H5N1 strain will mutate just enough to allow it to pass easily from person to person. If it does so, it could cause a catastrophic pandemic, killing tens of millions of people, because humans lack immunity to it. However, a WHO team visiting Dogubayazit, the home village of the dead children, said the evidence there pointed to infection from disased chickens. "At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typically similar to what we have seen so far (in Asia)," Guenael Rodier, heading the WHO's mission to Turkey and a specialist on communicable diseases, told Reuters Television. The WHO has confirmed only four cases in Turkey, including two deaths. The WHO said other cases reported by Turkey have so far not been verified by laboratory tests. In a sign that the disease remains dangerous in southeast Asia, Indonesia said local tests showed a 39-year-old man had died from the virus earlier this month after contact with dead chickens. It would be the 12th death in Indonesia. Turkey has said it is treating human cases in three broad areas, including three victims from the area around the capital Ankara, about 400 km east of Istanbul. The other victims are in the Black Sea areas in the north and the east where the deaths were reported last week. "The total number of cases in our country is 14 confirmed by laboratory tests, and out of those 14, three children have died," Turkey's Health Minister Recep Akdag told a news conference. Speaking in the village of Dogubayazit where the three dead children came from, he appealed to people to stay away from poultry, and to keep their children away from the birds too. The six-year-old brother of the dead children was discharged from hospital on Monday after being confirmed as free of the disease, Turkish television reported. Twenty-three people in the Istanbul area are at various hospitals in the city amid fears they have bird flu, Istanbul governor Muammer Guler said. "(But) nobody has been confirmed as having bird flu in Istanbul," he told a news conference. He said 13 of the 23 hospitalised were children. If any of the tests are positive, it would mark the first time that human cases of a disease that originated in China and southeast Asia have been reported so far west. The spread of the disease among humans risks hurting the Turkish economy. Russia told its citizens on Sunday to avoid travelling to Turkey, a popular destination for Russians. |
May I be the first to say: Bird flu spreads through Turkey!
Archie McRiff - January 10, 2006 04:26 AM (GMT)
I prefer Spanish Fly to Spanish Flu
... What is Spanish fly anyway? Some kind of liquor? I remember one of the Beastied Boys had a bottle of it in the video for "Fight For Your Right".
... What is Spanish fly anyway? Some kind of liquor? I remember one of the Beastied Boys had a bottle of it in the video for "Fight For Your Right".
the oob - January 10, 2006 04:29 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Archie McRiff @ Jan 10 2006, 05:26 PM) |
| I prefer Spanish Fly to Spanish Flu ... What is Spanish fly anyway? Some kind of liquor? I remember one of the Beastied Boys had a bottle of it in the video for "Fight For Your Right". |
It comes in pill form... or at least in Leisure Suit Larry it does.
Tony Montana - January 10, 2006 06:21 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Yeliah @ Oct 25 2005, 07:09 PM) |
| Honestly. Sanitary Masks. Crates of bottled water. Latex gloves. Machine Gun. I'm set. |
That's how you survive a pandemic-just go to the country and blow the shit out of anyone who comes near you.
JPAR - January 10, 2006 09:36 AM (GMT)
After seeing how they deal with the birds, they deserve the infection. If humanity dies, truthfully I wouldn't really be that upset. (i'd obviously be upset about my loved ones dying, but in regards to humanity, we really really have it coming.)