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Tests Show That Deadly New Flu Could Spread Among People
An anonymous reader writes in with another news story about how the bird flu may wipe us out. "A new bird flu that has killed 36 people in China can spread from ferret to ferret through the air. A laboratory test showing airborne transmission of the H7N9 avian influenza virus between the animals has raised fears that the virus is poised to become a human pandemic.
The H7N9 avian influenza virus emerged suddenly at the end of February and has infected 131 people. A few patients may have caught the virus from other infected people, but no evidence has emerged that H7N9 can readily transmit from human to human."
Just a friendly bit of constructive criticism... if you'd just read the entire summary, you'd have found out that the quote taken from the actual story pretty much directly contradicts both the sensationalistic title and the sensationalistic lead-in.
You don't have to read the articles; but please, at least glance at the summary that was submitted.
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The flu to watch out for will be one discovered to be carried by wolves. You will know it by the symptoms of the wolves' eyes getting all weepy and the infected wolves whimpering and crying constantly. It will be quite ironic that the flu that will finally get us will be the Crying Wolf Flu that everyone will ignore due to so many alarmist warnings of other strains of flu over the years that ended up not being such a big worldwide threat after all.
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In the experiment, ferrets are together for hours with forced airflow under temperature and humidity conditions that favor viral transmission, she says. “I don’t think this is what happens in real life.”
She obviously doesn't take mass transit.
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I just hope it only wipes out the people who write these kinds of sensationalistic articles.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
What is hyperbole? The fact that you could replace their tests with any substance and get the same results because main lining massive doses of ANYTHING IS BAD even water, or the fact that overdosing an animal or cooking up a test that would never happen IRL is supposed to "prove" anything, other than you know how to rig a test that is?
This is what i can't fucking stand about the USA and the whole "left versus right" horseshit because you HAVE to turn off your damned brain and wave your little flag, no such thing as hypocrisy or bullshit as long as the one shoveling the shit is on the "right" side. I mean did ANY OF YOU even read TFA? The ONLY way you can call that in ANY way valid is if and ONLY if you were testing the risk of working in a hot house, that's it, that's all, no fucking way in a million damned years would you have conditions even SLIGHTLY like this in real life but "Its science herpa de derp".
Well fuck that, bullshit is bullshit and whether its slung by someone in a white coat or not its STILL BULLSHIT. Again use the EXACT SAME CONDITIONS they use to test any substance and replace that substance with water, what will happen? Dead animal because NOTHING IS GOOD IN MEGA-DOSES,okay? Nothing, even the things our bodies require to live can kill you dead if you do nothing but mainline that shit, yet we are supposed to accept results from a test where they practically tied the sick animal and the healthy one together in an environment designed to make germs flourish?
Bad science is bad science and the fact so many of you run to blindly defend it without even reading TFA just shows how God damned knee jerk flag waving bullshit has embedded itself like cancer in this society, its sad and pathetic, that is what it is, someone in a whit coat could tell you the moon is made of green cheese and you'd probably buy it, fucking pathetic.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Just because there's a bunch of shit doesn't mean that shit don't stink. There may be some stunted souls as you describe, but their comfort has little to do with reality - only their feelings about it. For you to dismiss the message because you don't like some of the people who carry it is frankly stupid.
It's not necessary for any of the things you list to be world-ending. It's only necessary that separately and in combination that the effects of them impinge on things as they are; any one of them might be deleterious. In combination...?
It's you, I think, paying attention to the chicken littles rather than the science that may be the disconnect.