Avian Flu
Given the recent media hype, Ok let's be honest frenzy about Avian Flu I've been thinking about my own mortality. As some of you may know my great grandmother died in the spanish influenza epidemic in 1919 at the age of 33. Gets a person to thinking.
At first the idea that this could happen to me terrified me (ok it still does a little). My brain noted that in all likelihood my grandmother got this flu as a child and most likelymy grandfather would have too and I probably had some previous avian flu immunity, provided of course this new avian flu is a distant relative of the old one. Then along comes another media report that what really killed people wasn't the flu but the wicked reaction of the immune system to this type of flu. We're just screwed no matter what! Damn I guess I'm just going to have to eat, drink and be merry then. That's my prescription for combatting the avian flu!
At first the idea that this could happen to me terrified me (ok it still does a little). My brain noted that in all likelihood my grandmother got this flu as a child and most likelymy grandfather would have too and I probably had some previous avian flu immunity, provided of course this new avian flu is a distant relative of the old one. Then along comes another media report that what really killed people wasn't the flu but the wicked reaction of the immune system to this type of flu. We're just screwed no matter what! Damn I guess I'm just going to have to eat, drink and be merry then. That's my prescription for combatting the avian flu!
posted by Necole Anderson at 10:12 PM
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