Not here too... There are a few panicy children at school I have to calm down daily, because they keep gearing it in the media... :not_ok:
IT's simple - birds (like most animals) have various different illneses. Birds (like all living things) die. It's a normal proces and I'm sure such epidemics had already happened, but because people didn't identify the virus yet, they simply didn't care. Life goes on!
Now about the chance of becoming infected... I don't own any birds (actually at the moment I don't own any animals), I don't go around catching and hugging them and I never eat raw bird meat or raw eggs.
So there's no chance to get infected (the virus is eliminated at 60C).
And even so, there's medicatio0ns you can take even if you get infected.
So it's not that I care, but I'm more woried about getting infected with the regular flu, because that's a real possibility (And I hate being sick). I'm about as worried about getting birds flu as I am about getting HIV (as long as I don't do anything really stupid - I won't get infected.
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