Bird Flu Hoax
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ElfDude
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Don't you still have me bound in duct tape in some other thread?awip2062 wrote:Maybe Soupy needs duct tape? To keep him in control, that is, since he is being so childish?
Or maybe I just need to duct tape something to feel in control?
Or maybe I am just wanting to duct tape something so you all will think I am tougher than I am?
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
Soup, you didn't know the Six Million Dollar Man believed in a young earth?!?!? hehehe
Gee, Elf...I don't know. I might have you all tied up somewhere. But if I do, it doesn't appear that I did well enough, because here you are in this thread causing trouble. tsk tsk
*considers taping you both for good measure*
*decides to just go clean her mom's house*
Gee, Elf...I don't know. I might have you all tied up somewhere. But if I do, it doesn't appear that I did well enough, because here you are in this thread causing trouble. tsk tsk
*considers taping you both for good measure*
*decides to just go clean her mom's house*
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ElfDude
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Vous avez du Grey Poupon?Kares4Rush wrote:Or pass the Grey Poupon!CygnusX1 wrote:you mean.....Dr. "STONE COLD" STEVE my dumb ass is kinda confused....wouldja please pass the jelly?
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Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
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ElfDude
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Dude! You're right! Let's get back on track here!CygnusX1 wrote: my GOD man....all these 50-dollar words...
and not a DAMNED thing to do with bird flu!
WHO Says Bird Flu Virus Mutated
Jun 23 12:12 PM US/Eastern
By MARGIE MASON
AP Medical Writer
JAKARTA, Indonesia
A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.
The virus that infected eight members of a family last month _ killing seven of them _ appears to have slightly mutated in a 10-year-old boy, who is then suspected of passing the virus to his father, the WHO investigative report said.
It is the first evidence indicating that a person caught the virus from a human and then passed it on to another person, said Tim Uyeki, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said the H5N1 virus died with the father and did not pass outside the family.
"It stopped. It was dead end at that point," he said, stressing that viruses are always slightly changing and there was no reason to raise alarm.
Dr. William Schaffner, a bird flu expert at the Vanderbilt University, called the mutation "noteworthy but not worrisome." Generally it takes a series of mutations in a bird flu virus to raise the danger of a pandemic in humans, he said in a telephone interview.
Schaffner said it is remarkable that scientists were able to discover a mutation that occurred in a remote village in Indonesia. That's the result of intense surveillance linked with "21st-century laboratory virology," he said. "That's awesome."
The findings appeared in a report obtained by The Associated Press that was distributed at a closed meeting in Jakarta attended by some of the world's top bird flu experts.
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?