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[Silver Scorpio - International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News] Avian flu study offers insight into swine flu outbreak | Silver ...: Perez infected ferrets (considered a good model for human influenza transmission) with the virus he created, and allowed the virus to mutate in the species. Before long, healthy ferrets that shared air space but not physical space with the infected ferret had the virus, showing that the virus had mutated to spread by respiratory droplets.

[Emaxhealth] Swine Flu Spread Helps Scientists Understand Avian Flu Potential ...: Perez focused on the avian H9N2 influenza virus for his study, because of avian flu potential for pandemic, creating a genetically engineered hybrid human-avian virus. They used a virus different, though similar to the current swine flu virus, now known as the H1N1 virus, produced from a different strain of virus.

[Ecology alert] Ecology alert: Pigs: Swine flu plus avian flu (H1N1+H5N1) = Deadly ...: The biggest worry would be if a person or a pig became infected with both swine flu and H5N1 avian flu at the same time. As the former is highly transmissible but does not appear to be particularly lethal, while the latter is highly virulent but does not spread easily, a reassortment between the two could generate a very dangerous strain.

[Miss Moneypenny CPU] Swine Flu Delusions And Flu Facts « Miss Moneypenny CPU: [...] Another fellow blogger added an interesting post on Swine Flu Delusions And Flu FactsHere’s a small excerptIn this episode of Swine Flu Delusions, There Are Chickens in the Tree”¦ Swine (H1N1) Flu Facts Swine Flu Facts as of May 3, 2009 787 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection and 20 deaths ~ Source Swine Flu Facts as of May 1, 2009 367 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection and 10 deaths ~ Source Swine… [...]

[Suite101 Articles] H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus: Effects of Bird Flu on Infected Birds ...: Very rarely is transmission of the avian influenza virus accomplished from person to person. However, avian influenza viruses can mutate rapidly and the major concern among health experts at this time is that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus may eventually mutate so that it can be transmitted easily from person to person.

[Believe in America] Is It Possible That The Swine Flu Virus Is An Engineered ...: The current vaccines are oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), it is said that the flu is susceptible to those but not guarantee to cure it. Scientist are still doing research on the swine flu because it is rare of the mix of avian-human-swine but remember that viruses evolve through time, so it could be a posibility.

[Doctafon News] What Scientists Know about swine flu at Doctafon News: The team at Mill Hill, one of four World Health Organisation’s centres for influenza research will be working in close collaboration with the Health Protection Agency who are carrying out testing in the UK, and their findings will also feed into the development of a potential vaccine.

[The Big Picture] Swine Flu Strategy Update | The Big Picture: The first and the most infamous is the 1918-20 period involving the “Spanish flu.” That was also a variety of the H1N1 strain. Global deaths in 1918-20 attributable to that flu are estimated at between 40 and 100 million, or somewhere between 2% and 5% of the total world population.

[Homestead Quest] Homestead Quest » Blog Archive » Alberta incident raises prospect ...: The biggest worry would be if a person or a pig became infected with both swine flu and H5N1 avian flu at the same time. As the former is highly transmissible but does not appear to be particularly lethal, while the latter is highly virulent but does not spread easily, a reassortment between the two could generate a very dangerous strain.

[Medclinician Avian Flu News] Medclinician Avian Flu News » Blog Archive » Pigs only- no Avian ...: The deadly H1N1 influenza virus thatâ€â™s fueling fears of a global pandemic is a hybrid of two common pig flu strains, scientists who have studied the disease told Wired.com Tuesday. Earlier reports called it a combination of pig, human and avian influenza strains.

[Sciencebase Science Blog] Swine Flu ”” Sciencebase Science Blog: Large public gatherings, such as sporting events and concerts, were banned and schools closed, but international travel to Mexico has not been banned, is swine flu yet more media hype and scaremongering to distract us from the economic recession?

[ScienceBlogs : News] Swine flu: humans, a dangerous species : Effect Measure: The current swine virus lacks an important molecular signature (the protein PB1-F2) which was present in the 1918 virus and in the highly lethal H5N1 chicken viruses. If this virulence marker is necessary for an influenza virus to become highly pathogenic in humans or in chickens, then the current swine virus doesn’t have what it takes to become a major killer.

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