[FEL-L] Re: Avian influenza: An emerging feline threat?

[Ray]

My point was that the media and several activists were obviously hoping for 
a human version to break out and are disappointed it hasn't become the huge 
public panic they hoped it would.

We look for dead birds around here too. Mostly Nile fever cases.

It's that way with everything now. we name "depressions" in the Atlantic 
when years ago they did not get names until they really became hurricanes. 
Then they yell about how they run out of names and things are so horrible.

It's all an attempt to gain power.

It may be a pandemic for the poultry industry but not for the general 
public.

Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Stoffel" <tim at lionlamb.us>
To: <felines-l at catbox.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [FEL-L] Re: Avian influenza: An emerging feline threat?


> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 00:28 -0400, Ray wrote:
>
>>
>> "Bird flu" in its current incarnation has been around since 2003. I think
>> the media is disappointed it hasn't become the horror it was hoped. It 
>> would
>> have given governments so much power against animal owners...
>>
>> Not that they need any more.
>
> Ray,
>    Have you been reading your 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'?
> CDC is still convinced we will have a pandemic. If you read this
> publication a lot, you will realize what they now call an 'outbreak' or
> 'epidemic' of a disease would have hardly been noticed 20 years ago.
>    We do keep an eye out for dead birds around the zoo.
>
> Tim Stoffel
>
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