Fox News - A new study raises concerns that it may be possible for airborne transmissible, human-to-human avian H5N1 flu viruses to evolve in nature...The papers revealed with only five mutations (amino acid substitutions), or four mutations plus reassortment, bird flu can become transmissible between mammals – and potentially humans. Currently, bird flu can be transmitted from birds to humans, but not from humans to humans.
Look, can you guys just tell me if I need to be wearing those surgical mask things like all the weirdo Asians I see on the subway or not? That's all I really need to know. If the old lady with the push cart full of pea pods and live poultry is capable of giving me the bird flu, just let me know. I'll run down to my dentist and stock up on masks. If not, can we just ease up on this stuff?
We've been hearing about potential pandemics from Bird Flu, Swine Flu, EEE, West Nile Virus, Gingivitis, etc... for years. Just widespread paranoia amongst germ-aphobes, new parents, and old people. All the while I'm sitting here wondering whether it's worth the big fuss or if I'm going to die because a pigeon shat on my window. Just help me out and let me know when this shit gets serious.
You know what I am deathly afraid of right now? Flesh eating bacteria, that's what. Before like, March, I'd heard of flesh eating bacteria maybe once or twice, and I'm pretty sure one of those times was on a very special episode of House. Now? Every week someone new is being eaten away by microscopic bacteria. It's freaking me the fuck out.
I bumped into the corner of my bead the other day and opened an old scar on my knee...I've been dousing that thing in hydrogen peroxide every three hours for a week now just thinking that I'm going to wake up the next day having to have my leg amputated.
Can we get some of these medical scientists on that problem for now? Worry about all these other things at a later date? Please?
