Quotes About Flu

USDA's chief flu researcher David Swayne recommended producers try to recoup the costs of culling by selling sick birds for human consumption.

For centuries, Guangdong province has had the largest concentration of poultry, pigs, and people in the world.1575 The "Asian flu" of 1957 and the "Hong Kong flu" of 1968 are just two examples of pandemics arising in the region.

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat."3580

Generally, seasonal flu is a remnant of a strain of the flu virus that once caused a pandemic.

Gorton flu" quickly became a euphemism for pissed as a parrot.

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

Another risk is that if the wrong kind of immune response is elicited, the body might attack itself in what is known as an autoimmune reaction. This happened with the flu vaccine in 1976, when many patients developed a kind of paralysis (from which most people recovered) known as Guillain-Barré syndrome.