Saturday, March 11, 2006

Bird Flu in the USA

Here is a pretty interesting press release from the Harvard School of Public Health about the US feelings towards Bird Flu. Thankfully we at least make the grade about being concerned about potential outbreaks (57% are concerned). What I found interesting is that if there is an outbreak, 71% of Americans would not attend public events but (and here is where it gets interesting) only 46% would stop eating chicken. Isn't there something odd about that? I mean this disease is spread more through poultry than humans.. right?

2 comments:

Ryan said...

You might be interested in checking out this post from my friends in LA: http://www.yuppiesofzion.com/2006/03/a_fluttering_of_wings.php#comments

Unknown said...

I like comment #3 :)

also.. just heard today that we've a month before infected birds reach Alaska..