Juat have to crow a little ...

While wandering through the news-sites on my daily work routine, I stumbled across a really deceptive Fox News story, and decided it deserved some clarifying analysis. My editor posted it as such, and then I blurbed it back on Rational Review News Digest, as:

Media bird-flu scare fake?
Free Market News Network
by Steve Trinward

"NEWS ANALYSIS: Once again, the Fox News/Web MD headline is ambiguous at best, if not downright misleading: 'Bird Flu May Pass From Poultry to Human Easier Than Expected.' The story begins with accounts of new avian flu cases in humans, now spreading to parts of Turkey, where three children from the same family have died, with two of them so far confirmed with the H5N1 bird flu virus. ... However, deeper into the story, it is revealed that, with regard to the Turkish children, at least: 'According to news reports, a doctor who treated those children speculated that the kids had probably caught the virus by playing with dead chickens.' ... In other words, we are still dealing with a virus that only seems to pass from birds to humans if those humans physically handle dead or diseased birds. So the way to stop the avian flu from spreading is to stop people from picking up dead birds, or playing with diseased chickens, and to develop inoculations (or better yet, aerosol sprays) that can stop the spread of H5N1 among the birds themselves!" (01/10/06)

http://fmnn.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=5152

read it for yourself, and make your own call-- Is this just sloppy headline writing, or another piece in the concerted effort by the Shrubbos to con us into both martial law and a ridiculous purchase of several billion dollars worth of Tamiflu, which has still shown little or no effect on stopping the very RARE case of avian flu being transmitted from a bird to a human being, and still NO verifiable instances of human-to-human transmission! (Note the latest story, of the 8-year-old girl in Turkey... who cuddled and KISSED a diseased chicken, before coming down with the H5N1 virus! One would certainly hope children in more civilized parts of the world at least would know better than that ...)

Steve out