This post is not a blog quote, but my own opinion

For months now we can hear troubling news from the World Health Organization about a possible upcoming global epidemic. As far as I understand the case would turn really bad if the human and bird flu would “mix” and would infect humans too. So every instance where the bird flu is found is a potential birthplace of the new virus. (Just see the last years Asian news about bird flu and SARS.) One of the latest developments is that they found cases of bird death from bird flu in Romania and Turkey as covered e.g. by the BBC , but many other news sources as well.

Here comes my trouble: I run through many Hungarian blogs on a day-by-day basis and so far found not trace of discussion about these issues? Why is that strange for me?
1) Romania is a neighboring country. If the virus contagion would start there, we would be effected in no time…
2) There is a really large Hungarian minority living in Romania and many Hungarians living in Hungary have family ties over there. Why don’t we here “field reports” and opinions of those family members and friends covered? OK, most of the Hungarians do not live in the infected area in Romania, but they must know more than we know. If they are kept in the shadows that’s something too (well actually in that case that is a pretty scary something…).
3) Yes, the story is covered highly in mass media, but with all the aspects you would expect to see from mass media… this is where blogs could play a very important role.

Am I all wrong with the above???

Update: 1 day after this enty was born Pestiside’s news brief has a few words on this topic. I think that also enforces my above points.

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Flu
Birdflu

Beside covering and quoting Hungarian blogs I decided to write some of my own remarks too. If this disturbs any of you please let me know .
Anyway, I’m Hungarian and I have an accent too.

There are many parts of the World where if you ask someone to name a Hungarian, the single most well known man would be Ferenc Puskás (please see the linked Wikipedia page for details on one of the best soccer players of all time). I don’t have any statistical data to prove that, but just today I saw an interview from Uzbekistan, where the reporter asked people on the streets if they know any Hungarians? Do you want to guess who’s name popped up right away? Ferenc Puskás
About 60 years have passed since the team called “Magnificent Magyars” (Magyars=Hungarians in Hungarian) was considered by many to be the best national team of it’s time. Let just say the current Hungarian national team is not even near that. But the enthusiasm in many fans is still huge, so I should not be surprised to find a well-developed soccer blog in Hungarian: “Gólblog”. (Yes, you guess right, Gól = Goal in Hungarian ).

BTW, did you knew that the chief coach of the Hungarian national soccer team is currently Lothar Matthäus ? Oh my, this post starts to become a trivia pursuit so I should end it right here.

(The referenced blog is in Hungarian)
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Football
Soccer