The whole bird flu virus thingy amazes me. Not that I think it’s amazing that it has happened, just amazing in the way it is being tracked around the globe and that it is being spread by nature itself. Migrating birds. Somehow I doubt that a ‘War on Migrating Birds’ would be successful at all. Nothing would surprise me though in the current climate of fear being peddled by politicians of all leanings.
The BBC reports that the strains of the virus recently found in Romania are of the H5N1 strain, which can spread to humans and kill them. Nasty. 60 people have died from the aforementioned bird flu virus in the last two years (60 out of 6 000 000 000 people. More people die every day in this world falling off chairs while reaching for a long lost can of baked beans found hidden at the back of the kitchen cupboard…I can’t prove that, but I’m sure it’s true).
Apparently it is believed to have happened before, in 1918 with the Spanish flu epidemic.
Who knows? This whole ‘Polly-Wanna-Cracker Flu’ could turn out to be a nightmare for the human race, getting rid of a few hundred million of us. On the other hand we might have to rely on the world’s population falling off chairs in order to reduce the numbers of Homo sapiens that put pressure on mother nature.
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