Bird Flu Monitor > Consequences of research: The 1918 pandemic flu virus experiments

http://www.flupatrol.com [Flu Patrol] Those who favor studying the virus remind us that a better understanding of how H1N1 acts in primates may help scientiest and deal with future pandemics, especially in light of the unseen threat of an H5N1 epidemic in humans. Results of the current study do give us invaluable insights into how a pre-pandemic virus might become lethal with just a single amino acid change.

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Washingtonpost.comhttp://www.washingtonpost.com [Washingtonpost.com] In Vietnam, A Dark Side To Good News On Bird Flu (washingtonpost.com): But with more clusters of cases among families reported in Vietnam this year -- including that of Tuan, his sister and their grandfather -- experts say they are growing increasingly suspicious that the disease has begun passing from one human to another.

http://www.brendanloy.com [Brendanloy.com] The Irish Trojan’s Blog » Avian Flu & Global Health Threats: There are both frightening and promising implications in this week’s announcement that research teams have deciphered the genetic sequence of the devastating 1918 influenza virus…The worrisome news is that the 1918 virus appears to have jumped directly from birds to humans, and that the genetic changes that allowed it to do so are already beginning to appear in the [present-day] avian strain…

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