So the front page article of The Independent this morning was full of the terrible bird flu again after some parrot from Suriname died in the DEFRA quarantine this weekend. There probably hasn't been this much made out of a dead parrot since John Cleese walked into a pet store in 1969. It just gets a bit silly after a while.
Frankly the press does a pretty bad job at covering these things. They tell you that it's killed some 60 people in 3 years, which frankly doesn't sound that scary. But then someone else is quoted of saying if it mutates it will kill 50,000 people in Britain, which sounds a lot worse. Still, I don't really know how much worse than regular flu this disease is. How deadly is it? What are we talking here, smallpox or a bad cold?
Not that it really does any good to know how deadly it is. Just yet another version of "death from above" ready to strike at a moment's notice. Worrying about bird flu is probably more likely to kill me than bird flu is. Much better to just go watch a Monty Python DVD.
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