# We're all gonna die!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-gonna-die/291751
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 24, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-gonna-die/291751 "2005-02-24T19:37:50Z")
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### Author:  [@me\_jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/me_jane)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-gonna-die/291751/1 "2005-02-24T19:37:50Z")
This is a fun time to live. We have fanatical religious folks repressing, suppressing and opressing people they disagree with. It kinda reminds me of the Middle Ages. Funny thing about that is that we’re about to have a plague on our hands as well. Fun times.
Apparently the next great Pandemic is upon us. The Asian Bird Flu has been about 72% fatal in diagnosed cases where it jumped species from fowl to humans. All it will take is for a mutation (1) that allows it to cross between two humans and then: Massive Die-Off. Fun stuff.
Here’s a few links:
[http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Bird-Flu-Outbreak-Could-Kill-Millions-Warns-UN-40854.html](http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Bird-Flu-Outbreak-Could-Kill-Millions-Warns-UN-40854.html)
> **[World: Fears Rising Of Possible Bird Flu Epidemic](https://www.rferl.org/a/1057666.html)**
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> United Nations officials say the world must act swiftly to prevent a pandemic being triggered by bird flu, which has already killed 46 people in Asia. The warning comes from a conference on the bird flu being held in Vietnam that seeks to review how...
> **[Bird flu in humans may be going undiagnosed](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524884-200-bird-flu-in-humans-may-be-going-undiagnosed/)**
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> Two children in Vietnam who died of diarrhoea and brain inflammation are found to have had bird flu – doctors had been looking for typical flu symptoms
This one’s especially notable, because it talks about a possible vaccine.
[http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1301342.html](http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1301342.html)
The problem is that there are only 2 million doses of the vaccine before they even start testing it. If you thought the lines for a flu shot were bad last year, just imagine the lines for this one, if it even works.
(1) which is what causes it to jump species in the first place
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### Author:  [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-gonna-die/291751/2 "2005-02-24T20:05:39Z")
Alright! Now all we need is a good famine to round the wole thing out nicely (insert sarcastic smiley here)
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-gonna-die/291751/3 "2005-02-24T22:19:48Z")
When you can remember being 10 years old and jumping under your desk to duck and cover during an Asian Bird Flu drill, then you can predict we’re all gonna die.