Swans Blood and Cuddly Chickens
So its offical Bird Flu has landed. It has arrived on the shores of the British Isle in the form of a dead swan. The swan was found bobbing around dead in a Scottish habour. The boffins, becuase scientist at the centre of any potential apocolyptic event is by definition a boffin, took it away prodded and poked it. They then took some samples and took the weekend off. On coming back from a nice weekend they read their results and shouted cripes!
It was announced on the news the day after a story about a nationwide simmulation of an out break, which made it very confusing - was this real or was it more simmulation? Any way the media have turned into very conflicted beasts. They are almost screaming the headline, "Don't Panic!!!!" Which is very good advice.
Lets be honest for Bird Flu to be a problem it has to enter a human and then mutate into human transferable virus. Otherwise the only way to get it is to be fairly friendly with a sick bird. In the words of John Humphreys on the Today programme when speaking to a boffin, "So the advice is don't cuddle chickens or drink swans blood?" Advice to live by if you ask me.
But at the risk of sounding like a doom monger lets be honest. It, or something simmilar, will eventually mutate and kick us right in the knackers. Problem is there is not much to be done about it so i'm still not going to panic......or cuddle chickens.
It was announced on the news the day after a story about a nationwide simmulation of an out break, which made it very confusing - was this real or was it more simmulation? Any way the media have turned into very conflicted beasts. They are almost screaming the headline, "Don't Panic!!!!" Which is very good advice.
Lets be honest for Bird Flu to be a problem it has to enter a human and then mutate into human transferable virus. Otherwise the only way to get it is to be fairly friendly with a sick bird. In the words of John Humphreys on the Today programme when speaking to a boffin, "So the advice is don't cuddle chickens or drink swans blood?" Advice to live by if you ask me.
But at the risk of sounding like a doom monger lets be honest. It, or something simmilar, will eventually mutate and kick us right in the knackers. Problem is there is not much to be done about it so i'm still not going to panic......or cuddle chickens.
posted by gerbil at 10:04 am
5 Comments:
I like that, almost screaming, "Don't Panic!!!!"
Mad-Cow and Bird-flu. What is next for us humans to have to deal with?
Maybe a new powerful hurricane this season or a speed-up on the melting polars?
Well, I don't know about you Brits but I know us Americans are in the safe protective compassionate hands of George W. Bush and Richard Chaney, who could ask for anything better?
I'm suprised Bush and Blair haven't blamed the whole Bird Flu on some devilish bin laden/sadam hussien plot. I can see them now shouting, "look dead swans, weapons of mass destruction, told you they had em all along." "Its not a war against birds, just those birds who have a warped veiw of being a bird....and yes a few innocent birds might die as we fight this war but they will die knowing that we are creating a beter world."
I don't know about Tony Blair but Bush is much too 'chicken" to get too involved with actual contact type of fighting.
G, Just linked to you, thanks for linking to me. Great to cross the Atlantic!
No problem, It is as they say a small world....but i wouldnt want to paint it;).
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