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[Just a Bump in the Beltway] The Matrix: “The occurrence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus infection in migrant waterfowl indicates that this virus has the potential to be a global threat,” Jinhua Liu of China Agricultural University, George Gao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues wrote in their report in Science.
[Metoikos] I can see the future headline: Scrooge Bush causes flu pandemic: Shigeru Omi, the West Pacific director of the World Health Organisation, said at the opening of a meeting on the virus in Kuala Lumpur that bird flu had "tightened its grip" on south-east Asia since it was detected 20 months ago.
[Avian Flu - What we need to know] WHO estimates $150 million needed to combat bird flu: The funds are in addition to the 100 mln usd that United Nations experts meeting here this week said it will cost to combat avian influenza among animals over the next decade.
[Serially Speaking] Foreign Affairs - July/August 2005: To get a sense of the broader damage a new pandemic might do, it helps to consider the one the world is currently enduring: HIV/AIDS. Because this deadly scourge moves slowly, many of its social, political and economic effects have yet to be understood.
[En.wikipedia.org] Avian influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: It is feared that if the avian influenza virus undergoes antigenic shift with a human influenza virus, the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans. Such a subtype could cause a global influenza pandemic, similar to the Spanish Flu that killed over 20 million people in 1918 (though a variety of sources quote average figures even higher, up to 100 million in some cases).
[Girlscientist.blogspot.com] Living the Scientific Life (or Scientist, Interrupted): Is Avian ...: Additionally, NIID has already discovered 7 more “positives” for H5N1 among those samples that previously tested negative: These data resulted after retesting only one third of 90 suspected Vietnamese cases of Avian Influenza thus far. Not only does this difficulty of identifying H5N1 alter our calculated infectivity and mortality statistics but it also interferes with officials’ efforts to identify and monitor possible instances of human-to-human transmission -- the last criterion that must be met before an effective pandemic of H5N1 can occur.
[Futurepundit.com] FuturePundit: Avian Influenza May Mutate Into Killer Human Pandemic: Public health officials are starting to sound downright scary in their pronouncements about the potential danger to humans of the H5N1 influenza strain which is spreading through populations of chickens, ducks, and other birds in Southeast Asia. Julie Gerberding, head of the US CDC, told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that we are probably in a period equivalent to the historical period right before the 1918 influenza pandemic which killed tens of millions of people.
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