What Is It All About With The Bird Flu?
The humanity is always being challenged yearly. What good is a
year if there has been no major threat to our humanity? It may
be quite evil to say, but that's reality. Every year, there are
lots and lots of people who die from diseases, natural
calamities or terrorist acts.
It is a quite a scare to consider that one day, it might be us
who will be the next victims.
The current scare that is making officials all over the world
S%$T their pants out is the H5N1 strain. The H5N1 is a strain of
bird flu virus that has been found to be very deadly. It has
been considered to be deadly because of the rate it has been
transferring from one bird to the other.
The scaring thing about it is that once the birds show symptoms
of the disease. They have only a few days to live. The virus
also spreads rapidly, sometimes spreading the virus to other
flocks in just a matter of days.
Another scary thing about it is that a flu virus tends to
mutate. If it does mutate and joins with a human flu virus it
can be considered deadly for our species. So far the people who
have been affected did not contact the disease from other
people. They got the disease because they were unhygienic in
handling domesticated birds that are infected.
However, recent developments have now got more people scared.
The evens in Turkey should be observed more carefully. This is
because in the span of only a week, 15 people were infected.
Some may think that the virus has now mutated.
If it has now mutated, we have bigger problems than Saddam
Hussein. Currently we only have tamiflu to fight it with.
Tamiflu is just an antiviral drug that prevents new virus from
emerging out of the infected ones. Some experts even claim that
Tamiflu does not help. If it does help, there is just nit enough
to give to the whole world either.
The problem with the companies being hesitant to produce the
tamiflu or any other vaccine for bird flu for that matter; is
because they are afraid the threat becomes bust and they might
waste a whole lot of money.
The H5N1 strain is really becoming the stuff only movie
producers think about. It's like the movie Outbreak. However, in
real life the threat is bigger and we face a scarier situation
when we just laugh about it. Thinking like it's just Colonel
Sander's Big Joke.
The best thing we have to do is just remember to live a
healthier and hygienic lifestyle. Because as always prevention
has always been the best answer of humanity to any threat that
looms.