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[Christopherray.co.uk] Call me Chris » Bird Flu: Of course no variant strain may emerge from the pigs in Sumatra, howwever the fact that there is a cluster of human fatalities from H5N1 bird flu nearby, raises its own concerns. The World Health Organisation cannot, at this time, rule out the possibility that these victims caught the disease from each other ie the H5N1 virus was transmitted from human to human.

[Recombinomics.com] Significant Mutations in H5N1 Bird Flu In North Sumatra: E627K is found in all human isolates and allows the H5N1 to grow more efficiently at lower temperatures, 33 C. Since the body temperature of birds is 41 C and of humans is 37C, the lower temperature is closer to human body temperature and even close to the temperature in the nose and throat, especially in the winter, which could explain the seasonality of seasonal flu in the areas away fro the equator.

 [Time.blogs.com] TIME.com: The TIME Global Health Blog - Secret Sequences: But scientists were also quick to obtain virus samples taken from the outbreak and genetically sequence the isolates back in labs in Hong Kong and Atlanta. By comparing the genetic code of viruses taken from the new outbreak to past strains of H5N1, scientists could hope to see if the bird flu virus had mutated in such a way that could make it more likely to pass from person to person.

 [Flupatrol.com] Flu Patrol: It involved a hypothetical scenario in which the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated into a form which allows human-to-human transmission — an event scientists fear could cause a pandemic on the scale of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic that killed some 50 million people worldwide.

[Health on newsBag.net] New bird flu fears in Indonesia: The group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one family died of the deadly H5N1 virus in May. Their deaths sparked fears that the virus was mutating into a form which could pass easily from human to human, but experts later ruled this out.

[H5N1] North Sumatra: "There are two clusters": BBC News Online has details about the story mentioned just below: New bird flu fears in Indonesia. Seven persons are suspected of having H5N1.

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] North Sumatra: “There are two clusters”: A health ministry official, Runizar Ruesin, said experts were still waiting for test results from the group and any cluster "must be scientifically proved".

 [CHANGE THE WORLD] Indonesia reports new bird flu fears: Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised in Indonesia with suspected bird flu, officials say. The group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one family died of the deadly H5N1 virus in May.

[Greg Burnett - my dance, my song] Bird flu update: The group comes from Karo district in North Sumatra province where bird flu killed as many as seven people in an extended family in May, triggering fears the H5N1 bird flu virus had mutated into a form that could spread easily between people.

[Bird Flu (Avian influenza)] New Case of Bird Flu in North Sumatra... : This site was started to supply information about the Avian Influenza virus to the general public as well as professionals in the Avian Influenza field. One of our founders, who is part of an avian influenza discussion group, discovered that while a lot of information about the avian influenza virus is on the internet, there was also a lot of websites that claimed to have the information but in fact had nothing but pop-up ads.

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