Bad News for the French

That should be upper respiratory *tract*, # [n] a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose .

"Fred Bloggs" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com...

easily.

Ok, but why is that bad news for the French?

Fred probably wanted Jim Thompson to read it.

I saw this posted somewhere else, but I can't recall the source:

The tiger says, "When I roar, the jungle quakes."

The bear says, "When I growl, the forest shudders."

The chicken says, "When I sneeze, the world s**ts itself."

Bad news for the chinese/vietnamese/... France, even if every bird gets it is not going to be nearly as badly hit as china, for the simple reason that in france, it's comparatively rare to have chickens running around the kitchen.

The mutation needs a human to be infected with bird flu, then for the virus to mutate in them. Human infection only readily happens in conditions of very bad sanitation.

Flu could be greatly reduced by 'simply' raising the living conditions of the hundreds of millions of people living with farm animals in their houses.

Aventis Pasteur is gearing up for a huge market- selling the better fraction of a billion doses of the vaccine world-wide, and sole source for Europe and North America. Now that the real risk can be better quantified scientifically, there may be a significant reduction in orders.

Right- they must be catching it through the feces or blood. I wonder if the eggs are contaminated with virus.

They have two things going against them, the risk is far lower than initial estimate, and the vaccine may not work on the mutated virus, if it's even virulent enough to require vaccination of the general population versus a much smaller number comprised of health workers, the old and infirm, and the very young.

I recently heard a US pharmaceutical company being plugged on one of the financial channels, because of H5N1. Gilead Sciences. Hmmm...

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

You, homebreaker, are asking the Welsh and New Zealanders to abandon a way of life they have enjoyed for centuries.

I think you are being rude about Maori's - who are the only people who have lived in New Zealand for more than two centuries, and they didn't bring chickens with them when they sailed in from Polynesia.

I can't say that the Welsh emmigrants that I met in the U.K. seemed to feel any need to keep chickens in the house either, but that might have been what motivated them to emmigrate in the first place,

The Welsh only let the sheep into the bedroom at bedtime.

(runs to cover).

My uncle, Dick Wigley (RIP) was a Welsh farmer (In Minnesota; the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant), but they were so rich that they built a whole separate house for the chickens. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Make that Hmmm^2

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany