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http://flufactor.blogspot.com [fluFactor] There are normally 2.5 million deaths each year in the United States. But if H5N1 does mutate into a strain that can be easily passed from person to person, the government estimates are that as many as 2 million additional deaths will occur in a 6 to 8 month period.

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Msnbc.msn.comhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com [Msnbc.msn.com] WHO: H5N1 virus mutated slightly - Bird Flu - MSNBC.com: Skip navigationpd_top('Story','html40','13496122','WHO: H5N1 virus mutated slightly in family','A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster, but experts insisted it did not increase the chances of a human pandemic.','Health','Infectious Diseases','Bird Flu','','1','14:18, 23/06/06','','nopic','','','4067102','69943','', '1',0);pd_om('msnbcom','100');

[Majikthise.typepad.com] Majikthise : UN health official: Flu could kill up to 100 million: Cross it off the list." A version of the same process applies to the flu concerns, as you point out: "those most able to respond to such an impending crisis couldn't care less about those most vulnerable to it. In other words, mostly, third-worlders will die." Another version of this is the Pope's annual reminder that AIDS is spread by weak morals.

Old Crow Sactoflohttp://spaces.msn.com/members/oldcrowsactoflo [Old Crow Sactoflo] [IMG]: I recently read an article about Avian Flu. This expert's opinion (he seemed to be highly respected among the scientists who study these things) was that it couldn't reach person to person transmission for 30 years.

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