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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Birds don't get sick from flu. Nor do pigs.

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Tue Feb 13, 2018, 02:00 AM

Feb 2018

The constant mutating of influenza has to do mainly with the fact that in China pigs and poultry are raised together, so the virus hops back and forth between the two, mutating happily.

If we could change farming habits in China we'd go a long way to eliminating flu.

We don't need anything as exotic as cicadas to explain flu.

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Are Cicadas Responsible for Influenza? [View all] McCamy Taylor Feb 2018 OP

Damn. Theyre on to us. Cicada Feb 2018 #1

Better go underground for awhile until things quiet down lunasun Feb 2018 #4

I dont have enough time to address all points mrs_p Feb 2018 #2

Interesting references jberryhill Feb 2018 #3

Answers in genesis. Better to read SpillOver .That was good stories about illnesses passed to humans lunasun Feb 2018 #5

cicadas are not lepidoptera and they have nymphs/instars not larvea Kali Feb 2018 #6

Birds don't get sick from flu. Nor do pigs. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #7

Really? Then why do they give chickens tamiflu? I thought McCamy Taylor Feb 2018 #8

Have no idea why chickens are given tamiflu. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #9