German cat gets deadly bird flu

€uroMeinke · 02-28-2006, 10:53 AM

So it hasn't jumped to humans yet but....

I guess cats can get it if they don't watch what they eat

Stan4dSteph · 03-02-2006, 08:55 PM

Even though it's kind of a joke to talk about "bird flu" it's freaking me out a little. It's spreading fairly rapidly now among birds. Not good news as spreading means more potential for mutations that might result in an airborne-transmittable virus.

Moonliner · 03-02-2006, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Even though it's kind of a joke to talk about "bird flu" it's freaking me out a little. It's spreading fairly rapidly now among birds. Not good news as spreading means more potential for mutations that might result in an airborne-transmittable virus.

You can take some comfort in the fact that it only really takes off when it starts spreading human-to-human and when that happens the mortaility rate drops by over 95%.

CoasterMatt · 03-02-2006, 09:54 PM

Well, the gene pool could use a lil chlorine...

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