Can blokes catch it?

LOL
No but they get a bloke' d nose.

Do you work with birds? (of the feathered variety)

You mean like the Punt and Dennis joke?
I haveen't got bird flu, I've got man flu!

im a virologist (i study viruses basically) and i have studied the bird flu in great detail, at the moment humans cannot contract bird flu but if someone working in close proximaty with an infected bird was breathing in the virus from the bird then there could be the possibility that the viral structure could mutate to infect the human species, the worry at the moment is that farmers with both birds and pigs have a higher risk of mutation as pigs have both the recepters found in the human trachea (throat) and the bird recepters for the virus,possibly allowing the virus to use pigs as a mutation vector to pass into humans

hope this helps

Alex

Methinks someone missed the joke, poor though it was...

LOL but handy to know.
Good job I'm married. No more chasing pigs for you younger ones now. You have been warned, especially when the beer gogles are on.

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Originally posted by omega0684
humans cannot contract bird flu
Alex

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I caught bird flu, i know that it was bird flu because all of a sudden i couldn't park the car and i started talking bo***cks!!!!!!!!!!!

It's just not enough for some people .

And it all comes back again

i thought chicken soup was good for the flu...

only if you are a jewish american

In the uk its dry toast.

when i was ill in japan once they recommend plain noodles.

prob is, theres no jokes in there

atb

steve

[Edited on 10/1/06 by steve_gus]