Re: Zero avian 'flu risk from wild birds
- From: amacmil304@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:25:18 +0100
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:25:06 +0200, "John Morgan" <shirley.yu@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
The number of human cases of avian 'flu world-wide, attributable to wild
birds, is currently put at zero. In assessing risk, this would be the
figure, suitably scaled, that would be used to calculate human risk.
Gosh really! I suppose you could also have said that about airliners
being deliberately crashed into skyscrapers before Sept 11.
Multiplication of the numerator of a fraction by zero does not require too
much knowledge of Arithmetic to work out. An 'O' grade should be enough.
Sure :-)
Are you saying that if a child puts infected faeces in its mouth the
there is no risk?
Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
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