BF Again?

I refer not to boyfriend but the feared--or perhaps not so feared---bird flu.

I was surprised to learn of the latest outbreak not in this forum but elsewhere on the net. Are folks in the LOS getting complacent about the threat? Also saw an editorial in the Bangkok Post referring to a coverup (I was, of course, shocked..shocked...)

On an entirely different matter, I've always avoided visiting Thailand between March and July because of the heat and humidity but forecasters are predicting a heat index of 113 deg. F Wednesday for the US east coast. But Bush insists there's no basis for the global warming theory.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006- ... 903867.htm (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/01/content_4903867.htm)

It's the 13 you need watch out for.
I was going to attend a global warming rally but it was too damn hot.
So I stayed home and listened to an old recording of 110 In the Shade.

[Aunty]

There seems to be heat waves all across the northern hemisphere this summer. California, Europe. Yes it's probably idue to global warming, but the cause of global warming is still open to debate!

As to the bird flu, my view is that if this virus was going to recombine with a human flu virus or some other flu virus to produce a pandemic causing super virus culling millions of us in a few months, it would have done so by now. It may be that people infected with bird flu basically just die to quickly, so a new virus containing bird flu DNA sequences and human flu DNA sequences just doesn't get a chance to get off the ground. Hopefully in a few more years this virus will disappear as bird populations around the world develop immunity to it. But keeping people away from infected birds (and killing domestic birds infected) still seems like a very sensible thing to do.

I was more worried about SARS quite frankly. That virus wasn't a theoretical possibility, it was real, it was killing a high percntgae of the people getting it, there was no treatment or vaccine for it, and it spread incredibly easily from person to person. Now that was scary.

keeping people away from infected birds (and killing domestic birds infected) still seems like a very sensible thing to do.

Must I microwave the budgie?

[Aunty]

Up to you.

Must I microwave the budgie?I find that remark in very poor taste. Hedda is still mourning Monica's death - http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/fo ... .php?e=220 (http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/weblog_entry.php?e=220)

I'm with you, homi. Our new friend went over the line this time.

:angel13:

http://upload4.postimage.org/762933/budgie_dead.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/762933/photo_hosting.html)

Some 200 chickens at an Uthai Thani farm died Sunday, only three days after Thailand's second H5N1 victim in 10 days died from exposure to the deadly virus in the same province, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said Sunday.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_new ... ?id=112038 (http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=112038)

Wehn i came back to UK from LOS in July they searched everyone from Thailand & other asian countires flights at customs and explained it was in connection with BF.

they didnt bother with our excess ciggies or booze. Rubber gloves and sniffer dogs- must be a brisk trade in bird smuggling?