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Would a radiation suit protect against bird flu? Not that I am paranoid or anything

Just duck-and-cover Andy, you'll be fine

I doubt it. Virusses (is that the Plural? ) don't radiate.

I think it is viruii

best way is to avoid snogging sick birds

Just in case you're serious, Andy, you can't catch bird flu unless you undergo prolonged (day in, day out) exposure to infected birds. You can even eat infected birds and suffer no ill effects.

Annpan wrote:I think it is viruii

And how do you pronounce that???

In correct Latin (what I remember of it) I think it should be viri.

If the plural of Dice is Die
the plural of Mice is My

The plural of Virus must be Virususies

Ahh the beauty of the English language

I believe, boringly, it is viruses. At least I hope so, cos I've been proof-reading medical documents all week and that's what I've been putting!

Viri, virii and viruses are all correct. Using viruses means that people will know what you're talking about.

Annpan wrote:If the plural of Dice is Die
the plural of Mice is My

but its the other way around.. one die, lots of dice...

Andy Hamilton wrote:Would a radiation suit protect against bird flu? Not that I am paranoid or anything

The cartriges on your respirator should be designed for viruses (viri) not radionucleides........

Nev

red wrote:

Annpan wrote:If the plural of Dice is Die
the plural of Mice is My

but its the other way around.. one die, lots of dice...

my apologies

one my lots of mice

I doubt it because the filter may filter out radiation but not viruses.

Please delete this if I'm stating the obvious but I've just learnt this about bird flu and I found it very interesting. Birds get flu, it can be passed between birds and occasionally onto individual pigs. Bird flu can't be passed between pigs. The danger is, if a pig gets bird flu and it mutates so that it is transmissable between pigs it will also be transmissable between humans (because we're so alike biologically). Transmission between birds and pigs is most likely to happen in an enviroment where they are kept together, as in some rural settings in the Far East, which is why they're monitering so much there. I think that's right, I'm just the other half of a biologist and not the actual biologist.

One of the more far out suggestions for what the Black Death actually was, is bird flu. Interesting ay?

QuakerBear wrote:
One of the more far out suggestions for what the Black Death actually was, is bird flu. Interesting ay?

I thought the black death was bubonic plague (yersinia pestes)........

Nev