Bird Flu

[Iun]

Shanghai Poultry Markets Close Amid Bird Flu Scare.

 

It's a bit of a tense and uncomfortable situation here in Shanghai. I got a text earlier from one of the parents at the school saying that if things get any worse, she'll be taking her kids back to the US until things look a little safer.

 

The reason that people are so scared is that the first time around, with SARS, the government completely covered up the sickness and denied any knowledge until people were dying in large numbers - by which time it was too late for most people to take preventative measures.

 

We are just hoping here that the cases that have been reported are a few aberrations and most people need not worry. The hope is that human-to-human transmission is impossible.

 

Eek.

[Cube]

The reason that people are so scared is that the first time around, with SARS, the government completely covered up the sickness and denied any knowledge until people were dying in large numbers - by which time it was too late for most people to take preventative measures.

 

Over here we had the compete opposite with Bird Flu - with all the news pretty much shouting "Stock up on supplies because we're all going to be confined to our houses, all business shut down and we're all going to die!!!", while at the time cases (and deaths) of flu overall were at it's lowest point in years.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

Hope everything goes well over there.

[Blade]

Hope everything goes well over there.

 

Like to say the above.

[Iun]

Like to say the above.

 

6 casualties and 8 more are sick. Yeesh.