No. If it looks like it's showing up in my area, I'll probably stay home more, use a lot of the alcohol based hand sanitizers when I go out and make sure I wash my hands like I should. We are over due for a global pandemic anyway. If it's not bird flu it's going to be something else.
here are a couple links I found:
Quote:
http://www.ccs.k12.in.us/clj/GenInfo/HWT.htm
Germs and viruses causing these diseases are passed by such routine things as handling food, touching doorknobs, shaking hands, and putting your mouth on a telephone receiver. The spread of many germs and viruses can be reduced by hand washing with soap and water.
You should wash your hands:
after using the bathroom
after blowing your nose, sneezing, or coughing
before eating or handling food
after handling uncooked meat
after taking out the trash
after changing a diaper
after handling money
after playing with a pet.
To properly wash your hands:
use hot or warm running water
rub hands together for at least 10 seconds
wash the back of hands, between fingers, and under fingernails
rinse with warm water
pat hands dry, beginning at the wrist and moving down
turn off the water, using a paper towel
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hand washing is the single most important way of preventing the spread of infections. Hand washing is the most available “low-tech” prevention of illness.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/n...ory_31371.html
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Studies Spot Obstacle to Human Transmission of Bird Flu
Two new studies help explain why human-to-human transmission of the bird flu virus has so far not happened -- and might not happen in the future.
Both reports found the H5N1 virus prefers to settle in cells deep within the lungs, rather than in the upper respiratory tract, as happens with human flu strains.
That's important because "most of the coughing and sneezing that transmits flu is going to be from the upper respiratory tract, and not way down in the lower respiratory tract," explained Dr. Arnold S. Monto, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. "So, unless you have relatively close contact, you're not going to have much [bird flu] virus get out."
The findings may also explain why bird flu has proven so lethal whenever it has managed to get a foothold in humans, the experts added.
, but at least I don't stress too much till circumstances do actually happen. I do 'think' about it but not 'stress' over it...
I am not too worried about it yet. I guess if it makes the jump from bird to human -human I will be more concerned. BUT, I am eating better and losing weight, so hopefully my immunity will see me through. I don't get sick often anyway.
