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it's the usual flu season people, no need to fear this thing
by Kilo-byte 13y ago
it's the usual flu season people, no need to fear this thing
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThis flu is a bit worse than the standard one; you have a 3/10 chance of dying. As always, stay away from live birds...no pet chickens...think twice about buying that parrot.
- ars 13y ago> As always, stay away from live birds...no pet chickens...think twice about buying that parrot. What? No! This virus doesn't just magically show up in a bird, the bird has to catch it from another bird. Stay away from large flocks, sure. But home pets? No problem at all.
- panacea 13y agoDon't live/eat/sleep in close proximity to fowl pens.
- Crito 13y agoHave you ever smelled a chicken? That is good advice regardless.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoI was talking about my own rules being a resident of the PRC. If you live outside the PRC, you can probably follow more lax rules to stay alive.
- Fomite 13y agoIt should be noted that transmissibility and virulence (your chance of dying) aren't particularly correlated, if at all, so while you don't want to get this, there's nothing yet to suggest wide-scale person to person transmission. Indeed, there's some evidence to suggest avian strains of influenza (vs. pig strains) have a little bit of a disadvantage when it comes to kicking off pandemics. Also, early mortality estimates are super unstable.
- trekky1700 13y agoIt's also a lot harder to create vaccines for, as a virus that kills poultry doesn't work well with existing production methods that almost exclusively involve poultry eggs.
- Fomite 13y agoPandemic strains of influenza are noted for, among other things, their tendency to utterly ignore the routine seasonal patterns of flu. See: The 2009 pandemic, which kicked off in late spring, when the major wave of seasonal influenza is on the way out, if not over entirely.