Mad Machinist
Silver Member
H5N1 is still around. We still have the low pathogenic version that is endemic here in the U.S.
H1N1 is still around too. It was the "swine flu" that ran around in 2009. It was no joke. Ran rampant through my house and even put me on my back for a few days. The pneumonia complications killed my neighbor.
The bad thing about the flu, is different forms of it (swine flu, avian flu, human flu, whatever) can combine in pigs and birds and emerge as something totally different. This attribute is what earned the "swine flu" the moniker manbearpig flu.
Both of these types of flu are only a few mutations away from becoming global killers.
So Ebola doesn't really scare me.
H1N1 is still around too. It was the "swine flu" that ran around in 2009. It was no joke. Ran rampant through my house and even put me on my back for a few days. The pneumonia complications killed my neighbor.
The bad thing about the flu, is different forms of it (swine flu, avian flu, human flu, whatever) can combine in pigs and birds and emerge as something totally different. This attribute is what earned the "swine flu" the moniker manbearpig flu.
Both of these types of flu are only a few mutations away from becoming global killers.
So Ebola doesn't really scare me.