Are you guys serious? x_x
Quote: "Is it me or does whole 'Bird Flu' situation seem very suspicious?"
I don't think so.
The problem is that these asian countries are incredibly over populated. For example, take China,
http://www.citypopulation.de/China.html
From what I've been told, and I don't know if this is true or not, but I wouldn't doubt it, everyone and their uncle owns pigs and chickens. The problem with putting these two animals together is that the pigs can become carriers but are generally unaffected by bird virii. Then it mutates and can be carried to humans. The pigs are more apt to getting the virus because they're around chickens.
That is what I gather is how the virus would mutate, through the pigs acting as carriers.
Now, if the bird flu were to become something like the spanish flu, which is somewhat likely because of the living conditions of these Asian countries and the overpopulation.
The wiki put the mortality rate at 5%. However, with the population in China at 1.2 billion, even if the mortality rate didn't get above 5%, the number of deaths would be 6 million!
What would you do with that many bodies? More deaths would occur because of the dead bodies that can't be rid of.
And frankly, with a population of 1 billion, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
And with Spanish Flu trait out of the way, what if it were to mutate into something like the black plague?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_plague
Quote: "The initial outbreak of plague in the Chinese province of Hubei in 1334 claimed up to 90 percent of the population"
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