This Flu Is For The Birds Continued

NOTE: The following is a repost from November 18, 2005 -


"Millions Of Chinese Infected With Deadly Bird Flu"

We'll bet you didn't know this, but it is true - millions of Chinese are infected with the "deadly bird flu" that has caused a lot of anguished media coverage the past couple of months. Here is the caveat of all this - millions of Chinese are infected, and there is no epidemic of deaths as a result. The death rate from this "deadly bird flu" is no higher than with "regular" flu.

There is more on this bird flu panic that is worth reading.

And speaking of phony epidemics, the AIDS "epidemic" in Africa isn't all it's cracked up to be.

FOLLOW-UP - Scientists have been trying to combine avian flu with human flu to see if avian flu can cause a worldwide pandemic. There is, though, a slight problem - they're failing to deliberately combine human flu and avian flu, a telling sign that the periodic panic about a bird flu epidemic is nothing but pseudo-scientific scaremongering.