Bird Flu [A Race Against Time]
A deadly strain of bird flu was detected in Northern Cyprus. The deadly H5N1 strain of Avain flu has been confirmed in a dead bird. Cyprus began killing free roaming poultry and disinfecting vehicles coming in from the Turkish areas. Hong Kong has also found birds that tested positive for the H5N1 strain. The bird flu has killed 81 people since 2003. The world health organization estimates this virus, or one similiar, could target humans. If this happens it could spread around the world in 3 months killing 2 to 7.4 million humans. It’s like the last flu pandemic called the Spanish flu. It occured at the end of World War 1 killing 50 million people around the world. Some doctors and scientists believe this is why the government should be making a vaccine to combat this virus when it becomes necessary. This info is from google news [bird flu]
January 31st, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Hi Kristina. Good job on explaining how bird flu can effect the world and how it already has effected it. It is a scary thought when I really think about it though, because I sure dont want to be the one to catch bird flu and I have a bird so I would have to be extra careful about what I do with him just like many others. Good job on the post!
February 1st, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Hey, Kristina you did a good job with your news break. The bird flu can be very dangerous to deal with. You had a lot of detail and it all sounded good together. GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Kristina, that newsbreak was awesome and soo much statistics(.) I bet that you wrote a exsposatory and you prob
uably get a A++(.) Great job!!!February 19th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Kristina,
Things are not looking good. Here is a “bird flu” update from a college geography class blog. http://collegegeoworld.blogspot.com/2006/02/france-and-india-report-first-cases-of.html