India Is Now Bird Flu ‘Ground Zero’

“Does bird flu really have the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people, or is it just ‘global warming with feathers’ (as [Mike Rivero] calls it)?”
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India Is Now Bird Flu ‘Ground Zero’ via YOUR NEW REALITY by Darryl Mason on 2/1/08
Dozens Under Quarantine With Bird Flu Symptoms, Hundreds More Being Monitored
The H5N1 (bird flu) virus has now spread across 75% of India, with millions of poultry birds already culled and millions more expected to be culled in the coming weeks.
Workers now returning from the culls are being monitored for signs of bird flu. The majority of the cullers wore no protective clothing at all, not even face masks or gloves.
At least 26 people are now showing symptoms of bird flu, and hundreds more are being monitored for fever and other signs that they have picked up the virus.
Emergency quarantine centres are being set up in hospitals and health care clinics.
From the Bird Flu Blog : How India deals with this crisis, and winds back the spread of the virus to more than 75% of the country, and whether or not such widespread exposure to the virus will result in many human victims, will tell us a lot about how serious bird flu may become in 2008, and how effectively current control measures and guidelines are for dealing with outbreaks. Such widespread outbreaks of bird flu amongst poultry, in a country where living conditions for many hundred of millions of people are third world bad, is something of a perfect storm for the fermenting of the long-dreaded bird flu pandemic.
Does bird flu really have the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people, or is it just “global warming with feathers” (as the editor of whatreallyhappened.com calls it)?
We are very likely to get closer to the truth in the coming weeks.
Deaths are expected.
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