What not to do, should you catch the H5N1

Note:  I'll be updating this list over time.

Things not to do when infected with H5N1:

1)  Run away from the hospital to go see your Witch Doctor for a cure.  Just ask Dowes Ginting - runDowesrun.  The Witch Doctor can't save you.

(ps - you can't ask Dowes anything because he is dead.)

Superawesome Hooray for Blog!

Bird Flu Breaking News.com has listed this blog as one of the "Most Informative, Interesting, & Controversial, Avian Flu, H5N1 Blogs."

Hooray!  However shall we celebrate?  Would anyone like to add some dirty trackback pings?

What did Indonesia do?

I am just blog-crazy today.

But.  I wanted to ask the universe - what is it, exactly, that Indonesia has done?  Indonesia must have done something very naughty, to be handed all that H5N1 human infection, an erupting volcano, and today, an earthquake.  I guess there was that whole Tsunami deal, too, but that's like so 2005.

What did Indonesia do?  Was it worse than what my snails did?

I didn't see what the snails did, but they are so totally dead.  I think that might be more a question of "What did I do?"

What did I do?  Did I do the Indonesia thing, too?  Did I break my snails and Indonesia?  Grim Reaper - are you somehow involved in this whole mess?

Update - Yikes, I was referring to the 5.something quake, not this most recent quake that wiped out thousands of people.  What is next?  Locusts?  Rivers of blood?  Maybe, for Indonesia, it would have to be the ocean filled with blood, not rivers, seeing as how Indonesia is made out of 17,000+ islands.  Red tide might be able to accomplish such a thing, but I fear that The Reaper has something much worse up his...cloak.  Really - come on now.  What could possibly be next?  Ooooh!  I know!  A meteor!  An asteroid!  I know the answer!  I win!  Duck, Indonesia, hurry!

To all the ones who have loved llamas, before

Here is your pic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, here is a better resolution version:

And here are some more:

Enjoy!

H5N1 and people of Indonesia, sittin' in a tree

I know I've been gone for a long time.  I apologize.

First off - here's a picture for the googlers of zoophilia.  It's not very dirty, but neither was my llama pic.  It's not as sweet as the llama, but I couldn't get those birds to kiss me at all.  I couldn't even get them to eat my cotton candy.

"Eat my cotton candy" sounds sort of dirty, doesn't it?  And, pigeons are dirty, or so they say.

Maybe you're not really into pigeons.  I suppose they're more common than llamas.  But there is danger involved in such a tryst, what with H5N1 on the way.  That should make it a little more...stimulating.

Which brings me to today's point - the WHO is finally admitting that it looks like there's some human to human transmission of H5N1 going on, in the recent cluster in Indonesia.  Even so,  it's probably a case of human to human to human transmission.  Or, even human to human to human to human. 

It's all contained within a single extended family, so it's easier to get away with saying just human to human (instead of h2h2h, or h2h2h2h).

I don't think that the WHO is trying to get away with anything.  Really, I don't.  They have to be very careful about what they say and when they say it.  They don't want to throw the world, or even a single country, into mass chaos.  Not unless they have to.

Please see this excellent Effect Measure post:

ihearteffectmeasure

And this:

iheartthereveres

In other birdflu/panflu news, there may be a cover-up in Iran of two cases of human H5N1 infection, one which may have spread to the other.

It's not time to, like, make the trek to Sam's Club or Costco, unless you were already planning on going all bird flu prep plan crazy.  Still, don't be alarmed if the WHO should move us to stage 4 of 6.  We've met the definition of stage 4 for quite some time, just never officially.

My, I just end up repeating what the cooler, better birdflu talkers, like Effect Measure, have already said.  What sorts of new information can I offer, with which to thrill you?

Birdflu can make your eyesockets bleed.

Pigs are being infected with birdflu, but nobody really talks about it, mostly because it has scary, science-type implications.

Romania has been quarantining whole towns, preventing people from moving in and out, even though H5N1 is just in poultry.  Isn't that odd?  Why on earth would they do such a thing?

What happens in Romania?

The most scary of all, probably, is birdflu's spread throughout Africa.  It's, like, hard to track a disease that, like, kills people with pneumonia, especially in a place that has places that don't have, like, internet cafes and televisions, or even phones.  Or food.  Or medical services.  It's especially hard to track in a place where people are dying all the time from all kinds of things, dying in horrible ways.

Gosh, I wonder how Iraq is doing with its H5N1?  That's another thing that hasn't been talked about too much - the little cluster that happened there.  If only we had some flashy thing to distract us from the clusters. 

May I suggest morgellons?  omorgellons!

Update - I take it back - it seems the WHO is talking about h2h2h:  humantohumantohuman