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Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk

Disease in need of a new name
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    Posted: April 02 2006 at 2:32pm
It seems to me that part of the problem with getting people's attention with regard to bird flu is exactly that - the name - 'bird flu'.
 
Really now, how can anyone take any disease serisously that is named after bird s(no offense intended for bird lovers)?  After all, A 'bird watcher' is a a stereotypical nerd who sneaks around waring a safari hat and binoculars, hoping to catch a glance of a 'Crooked Toed Crop Hopper' or some such thing ('Lord, forgive me for that, and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea.')
 
I suggest we take suggestions for a new name for 'bird flu'.  I'll start by calling in 'Raptor Flu'.
 
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Mystic Mist is what I calls it
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Sounds like a horse running in the 3-30.Smile
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Probably where I got it from
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"Captain Trips" from the Stand.
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"Blu Boots" in the 3rd.
 
You could call it, "Cough so hard you'll break ribs"
 
Fever to funeral in 7 days
 
Bleeding from every orifice
 
Regular flu on steroids
 
 
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I thought "Bleeding from every orafice" was Ebola hemmoragic fever?
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Turbo,
 
The symptoms of Human Avian Flu are:
Fever of 101+, runny nose, bloody nose, conjunctivitis (pink eye), bleeding gums, sore throat, nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, severe chest congestion, bloody sputum, pnumonia (viral and bacterial), respiratory failure in 6 days, multi-organ failure.
 
H5 is right up there with ebola. There was an article about a month ago about the merging of ebola and H5. It is being called flubola (no joke).
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Awhile back I posted a similar question under "What's In A Name"
Snicklefritz, I've wondered the same thing-if the name itself contributes to many people paying very little if any attention to what's really going on.
IMHO
Killer Influenza Plague
sounds pretty ominous (fits the bill as far as I'm concerned)
I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man (Isna la-wica)(late 19th century) Teton Sioux
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I think something catchy (pardon the pun), like a commercial jingle or a catchy song phrase....
 
                   FLU-BOP-A-LOU! or FLU-BOP-A-LOU-BOP!
"Prepping is Power"!
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    Defcom 5 in your chest?
    Cyanosis means sianara?
    You give me fever, no really, you do . .
    THE most inFLUential virus ever?
    One Flu over the cuckoos nest?

       *NERD ALERT!*
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How about  'BFE' ?  Cause that's where we'll all be if this goes down.
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I laughed so hard at this Snicklefritz!
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The name "Bird Flu" is acctually a name for a variety of flus related to H5N1 that are mainly transmited, or effecting birds. I believ it was called that before they discovered H5N1 is dangerous to humans.
It should be renamed, since the name "Bird Flu" is quickly becoming only historically accurate.
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Doug wroter: You could call it, "Cough so hard you'll break ribs"

Sorry too long for the death certificates.
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Credit Card Flu. That will get their attention
Speculation is the only tool we have with a threat that can circle the globe in 30 days. Test results&news is slow.Factor in human conditions,politics, money&bingo!The truth!Facts come after the fact.
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"of the two witnesses, listen to your conscience"
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How about a military term...M.O.A.F. (Mother of All Flus)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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hey muskrat!
we're all coming to your house to day to go fishing.LOL
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Corn everyone is welcome to come fishing...the snow is almost gone..the firewood is dry in the shed..we could fish all day and have the firepits going at night...just BYOB and bring your poles and away we would go....
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was talking about your basement floodCry.
 
can i still bring my pole?Thumbs Up
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I like the Mother of All Flus (MOAF), but think that some people will still see FLU as cramps and vomiting, not death.  So, I prefer Killer Influenza Plague (KIP) because it suggests dying more clearly  
 
Or  KILLS EVERYTHING EBOLA INFLUENZA  (KAEEI); or Mother Nature'S Population Decimation Influezna (MNPDI), or how about Gonna Kill Half of You Influenza (GKHYI).   Okay..enough death for today.  
 
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thats a good oneLOL
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Is it time to start creating nominations and creating a poll?
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How about calling it the GOBI Flu-It started in the Gobi desert or very close too it.
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I kinda like this last part from Peggy Lee:
 
Now you listened to my story
Here's the point that i have made
Chicks were born to give you fever
Be it fair and have a sense of game

They give you fever
when you kiss them
Fever if you really learned
Fever
Till you sizzlen
But what a lovely way to burn

But what a lovely way to burn
But what a lovely way to burn
But what a lovely way to burn
A sensible man watches for problems ahead and prepares to meet them. The simpleton never looks and suffers the consequences.
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