Yes you do, because you never know where the mutated version of the flu will come from.. .It could be from someone working with chickens in asia, but it could just as easily be someone in north america who has contact with wildfowl.

"The Stand" is coming. Arm yourselves.

Pr0, it's time to trot out your weapons cache for the good folks. :ak47:

Direct quote from one of those sites...


Birds migrating south from China likely made contact with species in Bangladesh and Burma that were migrating west through southern India to Turkey, Van't Hof explains. This is how the virus reached Russia and Eastern Europe.

Birds from Europe are now flying south through Turkey. Soon, Africa will be exposed.

Next spring, when infected birds migrate to the Arctic to nest, they will mix with birds from North America, Van't Hof explained.

The virus is carried by waterfowl, which migrate long distances, increasingly the likelihood it will spread around the globe. How quickly it reaches North America will depend on how many infected birds mix with other fowl in nesting areas, and how close the nests are to each other. But eventually, it will spread.

"There is really no populated area of the world that will be immune," Van't Hof said.

if we get an outbreak of anything we will contain it.

weird as it sounds it is almost better stuff happens here...i can see it now..some kind of slight emergency down in the states...and eeryone would be rioting and burning down the hospitals

I'd bet on someone in China. They live and almost sleep with their chickens (And we are talking like billions of chickens and people). Very unlikely in Canada. The new pandemic strain will come from Asia.

It's if another SARS. Yes.

If it's another flu pandemic. No.

Woohoo! But how many people are really infected in China? Thanks to their communist government, we will soon find out. But not from them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051123/..._china_case_dc

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it had confirmed a third human case of bird flu.

The Xinhua news agency, quoting the Health Ministry, said a 35-year-old woman farmer in Anhui province had developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on November 11 after contact with sick and dead poultry. She died on November 22.

Xinhua said tests by China's Center for Disease Control and Prevtion had proved positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza.

H5N1 has killed 67 people in Asia since 2003, and both the
World Bank and Asian Development Bank have warned of the huge economic costs of a human pandemic should the virus mutate into a form that can spread easily among people.

For now, the virus is hard for humans to catch. But the case confirmed on Wednesday is China's second known fatality. A poultry worker from Anhui died of bird flu on November 10.

Another confirmed case, a nine-year-old boy, survived infection while his dead sister is a suspected case.

Some 50 million Chinese households raise poultry, mainly in backyards, yet the average number of birds raised is just 19, he said, citing a Chinese government survey.

maybe in major cities

not in suburbia, we all have enough weapons to several battles, even a war

& we have the perfect terrain for it too...still preserved civil war digouts

Thats a pretty uneducated concept you're tossing around. Are you going to ground the migrating birds that are really spreading the disease too? The US also has more Asians then Canada, and more flights too and from China.

I said per capita aj

I got a shotgun & a 1000 rounds of doveshot...lets line the coast ; )

dinner on me

Thanksgiving is when it'll happen..... the dreaded outbreak of avian turkey flu.

Feast my southern brothers, feast! :xomunch :xomunch :xomunch

50 Cultures

I'm all about killing so lets do it!

Well I lost about 20 points on my IQ reading this thread.

I just dont get it, there are way more asian in usa.

whats your point

Ya Toronto isn't the friendliest place in Canada.

Surely you've visited Montreal though? :thumbsup

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Communists in China? Forget about it! It's just what you see on TV. I stayed in China for quite a while and I can assure you that communism is the very last thing chinese think about. They all think how to make money and spend it eating out in a restaurant with their families. They spend hell lots of money on eating out, it's kind of cool. And one more thing: the bigger red star is on one's communist party-membership card, the faster mercedes he drives :) Don't be afraid of either communists, or SARS, or whatever may fuckin' happen in China. Be afraid of China itself. It's gonna be the only superpower in a couple of decades. That what sucks. They have a very strong national idea that they are the best, the strongest, etc, etc. And they really believe it. By the way, Chinese culture is as old as 6000 years. All this time the guys have been eating boiled rice with chopsticks and nothing happened to them. Only for the last couple hundreds of years they have sucked. But what's 200 years compared to 6000? Not much! And they have already dropped this fucking Mao-communism-cultural revolution ideas. Now they are getting back to the road which is gonna lead China to the power. And I'm afraid, they are gonna fucking succeed. Everybody, learn Chinese and get plastic surgery on your eyes.