WTF!! Prop

[Romanowski]

After the Kobe/Shaq handshake was thrown out at Bodog last night, and they actually kiss

This is eerie

Celebrity and Sports

Bird Flu infect humans in US before 4-6-06
Will Bird Flu infect any humans in the United States during the next Three Months?
(Until April 6, 2006 or public announcement made)
Yes +2000

[pats3peat]

that is bad news if this gets scratched out

[Will]

this is from bodog??

[rmaciasl]

ill take a shot a t yes if i was you

[pats3peat]

i just came up with an idea.. you bet ALL YOUR MONEY on this bet then you go out and get the bird flu.. its a win-win situation

[rmaciasl]

Originally Posted by pats3peat

i just came up with an idea.. you bet ALL YOUR MONEY on this bet then you go out and get the bird flu.. its a win-win situation

does it causes dead?

[Romanowski]

RMAC thanks for the best wishes to US citizens

[pats3peat]

Originally Posted by rmaciasl

does it causes dead?

damnit you found a flaw

[rmaciasl]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

RMAC thanks for the best wishes to US citizens

man i didnt say that but i would take a 10 dlls shot pays 2 grands i wont be mess if nobdy got it thanks GOD I WILL BE IF NOBODY GETS IT

[rio132]

Originally Posted by rmaciasl

man i didnt say that but i would take a 10 dlls shot pays 2 grands i wont be mess if nobdy got it thanks GOD I WILL BE IF NOBODY GETS IT

10 dollar bet would pay 200 dollars

[rmaciasl]

o sure sorry rio

[Blackbeard Pimp]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

RMAC thanks for the best wishes to US citizens

HAHAHAHA! Rmac is one funny cat....VIVA LA MEXICO

[Romanowski]

Avian flu is likely to spread to birds in the United States by midyear and could produce an epidemic among humans at any time, the United Nations official who monitors global efforts to fight the disease said Wednesday.

"We have a virus capable of replicating inside humans. We have a virus that humans are not resistant to. We have a virus about which we don't understand everything," said David Nabarro, a physician at the World Health Organization.

"It is at this stage of a pandemic alert that we have the luxury of being able to be prepared."

Wild birds migrating over the Arctic Circle from Africa and Europe in the next few months would carry the H5N1 virus to Alaska, said Nabarro, the UN's senior system coordinator for avian and human influenza. The virus would probably be carried to the rest of the United States six months later when birds from Alaska migrated south.

It was the first prediction by a top global health official pinpointing when birds carrying the flu will reach the lower 48 states -- and was buttressed by U.S. officials who said testing will expand dramatically.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told a Senate committee March 1 that the virus' appearance is "just a matter of time; it may be very soon."

Stepped-up testing

Frank Quimby, an Interior Department spokesman, said Wednesday that the focus of concern is on Alaska and the nearby Pacific flyways.

"It's a breeding ground where birds from Asia and North America go in the spring and mix together," he said.

Federal, state and local health officials may test as many as 100,000 birds for avian influenza this year, mainly in Alaska. Officials had tested about 12,000 birds from 2000 through 2005, Quimby said.

The stepped-up U.S. testing is to begin in April.

Avian flu infected at least 31 people worldwide in the first two months of this year, killing 20 of them, according to the Geneva, Switzerland-based WHO. That's twice as many cases and fatalities reported compared with the same two months of 2005. The virus has killed at least 96 of 175 people infected since late 2003.

Complex migratory routes

Ken Rosenberg, director of conservation science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y., agreed that the deadly flu now in Asia and parts of Europe and Africa is expected to show up in wild birds in the United States. "I wouldn't be surprised if it will be within the next year," he said.

It makes sense to focus monitoring on Alaska, Rosenberg said, but migratory routes are so complex that there's no guarantee that Alaska is where the virus will first arrive in North America or that it will follow recognized flyways.

Migrating birds can show up "virtually anywhere and come from virtually anywhere," he said.

Nicholas Throckmorton, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said all notable deaths of wild birds in the United States will be investigated. The U.S. Department of Agriculture also will monitor wetlands and bird habitats, he said.

Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center at the National Zoo in Washington said it's clear that migratory birds have played a role in the spread of bird flu elsewhere and that Alaska is an important place to look for it. But he said that's not the only way the virus could reach the United States.

"I would say movement of birds through the illegal pet trade is probably the most likely way it's going to get here," Marra said, adding that his comment is just a guess.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...603090573/1009

[rio132]

Originally Posted by Rome

After the Kobe/Shaq handshake was thrown out at Bodog last night, and they actually kiss

This is eerie

Celebrity and Sports

Bird Flu infect humans in US before 4-6-06
Will Bird Flu infect any humans in the United States during the next Three Months?
(Until April 6, 2006 or public announcement made)
Yes +2000

what happens if a united states citizen is infected abroad and comes back then is reported they have contracted the disease? how would the be able to know where the perseon contracted it at?

[Romanowski]

Rio volunteering?