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 [The Coming Influenza Pandemic?] August 18 Flu Update: Recombinomics notes that China is offering to share its isolate data. He goes on to point out that the rapid spread of this disease is a rare opportunity to study the virus in action.

[Right Wing Nut House: Politics served up with a smile And a stilletto.] WILL BIRD FLU’S “PATIENT ZERO” COME FROM CHINA?: in an attempt to prevent the westward spread of the deadly virus. The H5N1 strain of birdflu... of the infection moving to humans,” the statement added. Russia is battling to contain a birdflu... The irresponsibility of the Chinese government in combating an outbreak of birdflu in Yushu

[Crofsblogs.typepad.com] H5N1: According to the research, birds that usually migrate from western Siberia to Africa and Europe fly over the Caspian and Black Seas and stay in these territories for several weeks, which may cause spreading of a H5N1 virus there. The virus may also affect Iran, Iraq, Georgia and the Ukraine, as birds from the north often choose these countries to spend the winter, experts say.

 [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).

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