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White House: Bird Flu Suspected in Michigan Geese

news.yahoo.com — "U.S. officials believe that wild geese in Michigan may have been infected with a strain of the bird flu virus, but it is not thought to be a highly pathogenic strain and is one that has been seen previously in North America, the White House said on Monday."

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  • jonqdoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"...but it is not thought to be a highly pathogenic strain and is one that has been seen previously in North America, the White House said on Monday."

    In other words, this story is only here to keep us a little scared and uneasy? Why bother w/ a report from the White House if it's been here before and is nothing to worry about?
  • Phaetonsurge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7My mother's house is in Port Huron - and we always joke about "Chasing the Canadians off the lawn." - In reference to the geese of course. Now it's a little more serious!

    You're on, Canada('s birds!)
  • ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I'm more concerned with getting in a car accident, drowning, or dying in a fire than I am with bird flu or terrorism, and statistics show that I should be.
  • Neploxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yep, midterm elections are coming up.

    BOOGA BOOGA!!!! YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! (If you don't vote Republican)
  • SwordofKahless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The "government" not a credible source.
  • weighsaton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Bird flu... i thought we were already all supposed to be dead from that already. Funny how you hear all about it the news for about a month. Then after the next story breaks which is a little better then nothing for months and months. The most over blown dieses ever.
  • prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So they can say keep your mind off the jacked up things that are going on and focus on a problem that is not a problem at all.
  • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It must be "spread the fear" day.
  • eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4if you're smart, you'll prepare ahead of time. I've got my churchy old black lady and my retard already. M-O-O-N that spells paranoia.
  • wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Question authority!!! dubba lies again
  • lovkraft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Still not confirmed, so bets are still open....

    http://www.tradesports.com/aav2/trading/tradingHTML.jsp?evID=36620&eventSelect=36620&updateList=true&showExpired=false

    Check the history graph to see how this news affected the odds. Too cool.
  • floejoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3FEAR!
  • gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sweet!

    In Grand Rapids here, and now...

    ...I've finally got a plausible excuse to use Bird Flu as my reason for missing work!

    (not that it's stopped me before)
  • mcmac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not sure who is screwing up the accuracy of this story, the White House or Yahoo! As far as I know SWANS are not the same as GEESE. Detroit Free Press article: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060815/NEWS05/608150391
  • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"When Geese Attack!!" Next on Fox
  • fixinor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As someone who lives in a country where this "disease" has existed since before the start summer and hasnt seen jack ***** about a single infected person since the hyper over "the birds are coming, run run run" died down I have to say this is just *****. Basically if you walk around licking dead birds lying on the ground maybe you should worry but otherwise its all ***** hype.
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2just in case michigan didn't have enough "real" problems.
  • xeeton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I live in Holland, not 30 minutes away from you. Good thing I'm moving to LA tomorrow before the geese attack.
  • traviskicks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ya, that is cool, i couldn't figure out what the odds were tho... a lot of complex stuff there... betters are pretty accurate when it comes to stuff like that, especially elections and such.
  • trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet! Now we have a non-oil reason to invade canada and erradicate the war criminals who are trying to kill us by the bird flu!
  • CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2not if bird flu mutates. then the statistics will be skewed a bit as you have a "The Stand" style plague on your hands.
  • lsdeath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great. It begins
  • h3smith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As i recall, this "disease" has been going to cause "mass death" for well over a year now.

    Nothing but pathetic fear mongering.
  • fixinor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Depends, how are the neo-cons doing in the ratings?
  • CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ eggo

    hahahha! sir, you rock!
  • steward39, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sure it's not pathogenic.

    Just like Whitman didn't want to scare anyone about the air at the World Trade Center.
  • Jasonn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I heard this on the local news yesterday. But seriously, there's no reason for the government to issue a press release from the White House, especially when there's nothing to worry about...

    ...there is nothing to worry about, right? /cry
  • brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3SARS 2.0
  • alanspach, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3maybe you'll get it and it won't be so "over blown"

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