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**exschke** · 09-21-2012, 01:46 PM

what really worries me is that according to the latest news in Thailand, it's not only chicken and ducks, but also pigeons, which fly wherever they want freely.
but maybe I'm safer in Thailand than back here in Europe, here the influenza epidemics are quite severe every winter because of the cold temperatures, so probably the chances of the two strains / varieties combining are greater back here. (luckily, I have never ever had influenza in my life, others usually catch it yearly.)
and I'm also afraid of the media making a huge fuss about it, in an effort to scare people into buying more medicine and more tabloid newspapers. I don't want to downplay the danger, but I would expect more facts and less hysteria from the media in general.

09-21-2012, 01:46 PM	#2
exschke Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	what really worries me is that according to the latest news in Thailand, it's not only chicken and ducks, but also pigeons, which fly wherever they want freely. but maybe I'm safer in Thailand than back here in Europe, here the influenza epidemics are quite severe every winter because of the cold temperatures, so probably the chances of the two strains / varieties combining are greater back here. (luckily, I have never ever had influenza in my life, others usually catch it yearly.) and I'm also afraid of the media making a huge fuss about it, in an effort to scare people into buying more medicine and more tabloid newspapers. I don't want to downplay the danger, but I would expect more facts and less hysteria from the media in general.
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