Boing Boing: H5N1 Bird Flu getting scarier by the day
It is now worse, and I am even scared. This disease evolved and now kills just about anyone it contacts, and now it can spread human-to-human.
A projected 7.4 million world wide deaths are expected.
That is not true. It does not kill everyone it contacts. In fact, few humans have died from the disease. It has killed more than half of those it infected, however, predominately, as in all cases of the flu, children and the elderly. Remember, there are 6 BILLION people in the world, and more die from car accidents each day. Don’t get yourself all worked up over something that is not here yet! As for vaccines, there are no vaccines yet to combat the bird flu, although they are being researched. you could take tamiflu, which helps lessen the severity of flu symptoms by a couple of days but does not cure the flu. But if the bird flu begins to spread from human to human transmission, then meds like tamiflu will be in very short supply. might want to stock up now.