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 [Kinshasa On The Potomac] Latest WHO H5 Updates: Surveillance for human cases in China intensified over the past month following a recurrence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in poultry. Since 19 October, China has reported 11 fresh outbreaks of the disease in six provinces, from Liaoning in the northeast of the country to Xinjiang in the far west.

 [Leaping Real Eyes] Monster at Our Door: At the same time, some of them have been performing prodigious genetic detective work as a mutant flu virus, H5N1, has lodged in the systems of wild fowl in southern China, moved into massed domestic fowl populations nearby, and begun to spread to human beings; all the while still genetically evolving in birds (domestic and wild), swine, and even perhaps people, "looking for" the means to leap not just from bird to bird, or bird to swine, or even from bird to human, but from human to human at a staggering rate.

[Bird-flu-updates.com] Bird Flu Updates: he USA has strong barriers against H5N1. The migratory routes of wild birds largely run north-south and provide little chance that an infected bird from Asia or Eastern Europe would infect a North American bird that would, in turn, infect U.S. poultry.

[Epidemi.ca] EPIDEMIca | 3.0 | A weblog about infectious disease by MJ Milloy: The three major flu pandemics either coincided with or were followed by recession in the U.S. While there were other factors ”¦ the correlation between pandemics and poor economic performance is striking. ”¦ The biggest impact appears to be on consumer spending, especially those areas that are most likely to bring people into contact with others (retail sales, travel/tourism)" // #

 [Effectmeasure.blogspot.com] Effect Measure: In the not so distant past one of the worrisome scenarios was that human and bird viruses would co-infect pigs and mix and match their genes to produce some hybrid of the worst of human and bird influenza viruses, the so-called reassortment mechanism. Then it become plausible that the virus didn't need to mix and match whole segments but might swap pieces of genes, either between its own gene segments (non-homologous recombination) or among the same genes from another viral strain or subtype co-infecting the cell (homologous recombination).

 [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bird flu claims first ...: Officials in Liaoning province's Heishan county have cited the vaccination of the province's 320m farm birds as evidence that China is up to the task it has set itself.

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