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Gminn03
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I wasn't sure where to put this topic, so I put it here. I'm planning a trip to Bangkok. I know people are avoiding chicken, for obvious reasons. I wasn't able to find this information. Are many restaurants not serving eggs and chicken due to the scare or are they just cooking them longer and are hotels not serving eggs as part of their buffet breakfasts?
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Posted on: 3:04 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Manuel bkk
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Help...... APEC in disguise!!!!
Another thread about bird flu seems a bit overdone. Sorry not to give more usefull info.
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Posted on: 4:04 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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expatchuck
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Gminn03:
If you are afraid of chickens and eggs, why not stay at home and dine on mad cow?
Come on guys...there are lots more TGs killed on motorcycles every day than have died from the killer chicken.
Either go or don't but quit worrying about some imaginary outbreak of the black plague.
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Posted on: 4:16 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Vancouver Jay
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Talkin' 'bout tha egg, tha symbol of life,
The force of God that bust out your wife.
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Posted on: 5:10 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Mr Alan
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I don't want to be an alarmist, but according to new reports KFC has stopped serving chicken in Thailand until they get supplies imported from the US.
So I think the guy has a legitimate question.
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Posted on: 5:33 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Smegma
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Commercial reasons prompt companies like KFC to act one way or the other -not real honest concern for the health of their customers. Lets be honest.
This is a very interesting matter for virologists, doctors, etc. But I too agree that things are overblown in this time and era by the media.
Every year there are several epidemics of different diseases somewhere -but because there are of already known diseases the media doesn't bother that much. According to the WHO, infectious diseases cause 63% of all childhood deaths and 48% of premature deaths. Many of these deaths are caused by every year by local epidemics of infectious diseases such as cholera, meningococcal disease, malaria, cholera, sleeping sickness, dengue fever, typhus and measles.
Those take place every year, but nobody we do not pay much attention because the media doesn't bombard us about them cuz.... there is no novelty on talking about an outbreak of typhus in Africa. It happens every year. Sometimes in one country, some other times in another. So, who cares? Only the doctors and the people who work on that. Of course, the doctors who spent all their lifes working on these matters are always happy when reporters finally go to ask them questions about what theyare doing. The same doctors will at any other time be willing to give an interview about the dangers of hepatitis c, if ever any journalist bothered to go an interview them.
The flu that we all know has been estimated to infect as many as 100 million people each year in the northern hemisphere alone. Far from being an innocuous “cold-like” infection, the flu is a killer, causing approximately 20,000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Though people do not stop from going to the USA because of this.
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Posted on: 5:56 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Mr Alan
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Maybe I am wrong, but my understanding of the bird/chicken flu is that it has a relatively high mortality rate, even among healthy people. Certainly it appears to be more dangerous than the vast majority of other flu strains.
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Posted on: 6:13 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Smegma
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hmmm.... maybe if you catch it and are tested specifically for it and proven to have it. But the jury is still out on that one. Anyway still assuming the mortality rate is high, what are the probabilities of catching it? So far the only few cases are of people who had close contact with the birds.
As said above 20,000 people in the USA alone die of flu everyear. That means 55 people die every day in the USA of the flu. Not even 55 people have yet caught the bird flu virus over all these weeks. You tell me what should I worry more about? Eating chicken in Thailand or catching the flu in the USA? Again, my point being that the media overblows things. Conclusion: I worry about neither.
BTW, the mortailty rate of sleeping sickness is also very high -though it gives you a slow debilitating painful death. And the only drug that can be used as a cure has a high probality to kill you by itself. For that reason it is only tried once the disease is in a very advanced state. How sad is that?!
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Posted on: 6:30 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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expatchuck
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Yeah, and the sky is falling.
At the time of this post there had been a total of six (6) deaths in Thailand due to this strain of influenza.
If you guys really want to worry about something, give some thought to the spread of malaria which kills approximately 2 million people per year, half of them children under the age of five. Here is a link you might want to read to really have something to worry about:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no2/martens.htm
If you come to Thailand, just avoid the chicken farms.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 6:37 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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Smegma
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Bull's eye EPC!! Couldn't agree more with you. Cheers!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:49 am on Feb. 5, 2004
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