Ferrets & Flu

[Leeview 791]

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Y.I.S Leeview

[CommanderData 0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu

Influenza type B

Bit of a scroll down................. but none the less factual!!!

That's a nice article. Here's another.

Do you have a stutter, or is there a more obvious reason why you would repeat a posting wihout comment?

no stutter, wanted to save it incase it got deleted/edited you asked for definition of ferrets being capable of contacting flu from humans and vice versa a link was provided theres a good few more and you retort with a link about diseases???? when the topics clearly about viruses

Y.I.S Leeview

Nobody has claimed that influenza isn't a zoonotic disease, my objection was to the confused lumping together of the viral agents which cause colds and flu as a "flu/cold type virus", of which there is no such category. One would have to be living in a cave not to know that influenza is zoonotic, and dangerously gullible to believe that human colds are zoonotic. Try looking at a credible source. Do you see "human cold" listed there?

Edited July 5, 2009 by CommanderData

[droid 11]

you retort with a link about diseases???? when the topics clearly about viruses

Y.I.S Leeview

 

Are you going to start claiming that viruses don't cause disease?

 

Is this another example of the sort of confused thinking that links a genetic disorder with a contagion?

[droid 11]

CD's gone quiet

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I wish you would.

 

I haven't had to cope with this sort of 'thinking' since I last had to teach bottom set GCSE students about electron shell configurations and the Periodic Table....

[CommanderData 0]

you retort with a link about diseases???? when the topics clearly about viruses

Y.I.S Leeview

 

Are you going to start claiming that viruses don't cause disease?

 

Is this another example of the sort of confused thinking that links a genetic disorder with a contagion?

Ah, I think that I begin to see the source of Lee's confusion about Waardenburg Syndrome now; a lack of basic schooling.

Edited July 5, 2009 by CommanderData

[Leeview 791]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu

Influenza type B

Bit of a scroll down................. but none the less factual!!!

That's a nice article. Here's another.

Do you have a stutter, or is there a more obvious reason why you would repeat a posting wihout comment?

no stutter, wanted to save it incase it got deleted/edited you asked for definition of ferrets being capable of contacting flu from humans and vice versa a link was provided theres a good few more and you retort with a link about diseases???? when the topics clearly about viruses

Y.I.S Leeview

Nobody has claimed that influenza isn't a zoonotic disease, my objection was to the confused lumping together of the viral agents which cause colds and flu as a "flu/cold type virus", of which there is no such category. One would have to be living in a cave not to know that influenza is zoonotic, and dangerously gullible to believe that human colds are zoonotic. Try looking at a credible source. Do you see "human cold" listed there?

mustela putorious furo how many times have you claimed on your own site that ferrets cant catch flu from humans? just as you stated early in this thread a link is put up stating that influenza B can be transmitted twixt humans, seals and FERRETS. TRUE or FALSE

Y.I.S Leeview

[Leeview 791]

CD's gone quiet

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I wish you would.

 

I haven't had to cope with this sort of 'thinking' since I last had to teach bottom set GCSE students about electron shell configurations and the Periodic Table....

Was there any reason why you were only teaching bottom set gcse students?

Y.I.S Leeview

[Flynn 314]

CD's gone quiet

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I wish you would.

 

I haven't had to cope with this sort of 'thinking' since I last had to teach bottom set GCSE students about electron shell configurations and the Periodic Table....

I was Not the Brightest ar School more the Arty Farty Type

but Droid really!! You were a teacher

so i will go easy on You!!

 

 

The word "cause" is the key to the question -- and the answer.

 

When you drop a stone on your foot -- and it hurts, what is the cause?

 

Most people would probably say that the stone caused the pain.

 

But, if you really think about it you'd probably realize that the stone is not the true cause, only a tool, and that it is you, yourself, who is the cause of the pain. It was you who dropped the stone on your foot, so you are the cause of the pain.

 

It seems more clear when the "tool" being used is part of your body.

 

You hit a guy in the face with your fist! He bleeds!

 

Would you say that "Droid hit him in the face!" or "Droid's hand hit him in the face!"

 

Your hand is not "you" but is certainly part of you.

 

The stone is not even "part" of you, but it is simply a tool that "you" used when you dropped it on your foot.

 

It was a mistake? OK, but "who" made the mistake, and how can a "mistake," suddenly, cause the stone to become cause?

 

 

 

 

The idea of "killing" stones seems foolish, and it is. But the same label of "foolish" is hardly ever applied when instead of "stone" you speak of the "virus." The virus is no more alive than a stone, and therefore cannot cause anything.

 

[droid 11]

Really?

So what 'causes' Influenza then?

Or Alzheimers'.....or BSE.....

[droid 11]

CD's gone quiet

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I wish you would.

 

I haven't had to cope with this sort of 'thinking' since I last had to teach bottom set GCSE students about electron shell configurations and the Periodic Table....

Was there any reason why you were only teaching bottom set gcse students?

Y.I.S Leeview

 

Yes.

 

I was bloody good at it.

[Leeview 791]

CD's gone quiet

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I wish you would.

 

I haven't had to cope with this sort of 'thinking' since I last had to teach bottom set GCSE students about electron shell configurations and the Periodic Table....

Was there any reason why you were only teaching bottom set gcse students?

Y.I.S Leeview

 

Yes.

 

I was bloody good at it.

In my day departmental heads taught the top set and the worse teachers got the no hopers sets

Y.I.S Leeview

[Flynn 314]

Really?

So what 'causes' Influenza then?

Or Alzheimers'.....or BSE.....

and i thought You were the teacher

[droid 11]

In my day departmental heads taught the top set and the worse teachers got the no hopers sets

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I wasn't born 'in your day'

[droid 11]

Really?

So what 'causes' Influenza then?

Or Alzheimers'.....or BSE.....

and i thought You were the teacher

 

It was a rhetorical question.

[droid 11]

[mustela putorious furo how many times have you claimed on your own site that ferrets cant catch flu from humans? just as you stated early in this thread a link is put up stating that influenza B can be transmitted twixt humans, seals and FERRETS. TRUE or FALSE

Y.I.S Leeview

 

I think you're confusing colds with flu, there, 'Lee'.

 

Human colds can't be transmitted to ferrets, human flu can.