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Tasteful Future - the champagne of weblogshttp://www.gluemeat.com/tastefulfuture [Tasteful Future - the champagne of weblogs] Fellow Dipper Politicagrll has written an extensive post on the very real possibilities of the avian flu virus mutating its way into pigs. She has an excellent selection of articles on the matter and is worth getting acquainted with a rather possible scenario.

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http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com [sketches of a village idiot savant] Bird Flu: Earlier this month, USA Today reported more than 140 million birds have died or been destroyed in an effort to contain the virus, but the significant statement was “The current virus, known as H5N1, has not yet mutated to the point at which it can easily spread from person to person.” In fact, Dr. Horowitz said, it is likely it has never spread from person to person except when being handled in a laboratory.

discarded lies: trying to conquer the Middle East, one dehydrated camel at a timehttp://discardedlies.com [discarded lies: trying to conquer the Middle East, one dehydrated camel at a time] Avian flu traced back to 1959 Scottish chicken: For the first time, the virus can survive in chicken faeces and in dead meat, without requiring the flow of fresh blood. This has made it stealthier, claiming victims who had no obvious connection with the agricultural industry.

Sciencenewsblog.comhttp://www.sciencenewsblog.com [Sciencenewsblog.com] Science News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: Infectious disease experts are very concerned that the bird flu could mutate into a more virulent form that could spread easily from human to human. So far the majority of the cases have involved humans catching the virus directly from poultry and there have only been a couple isolated unconfirmed cases where a human caught the virus from close contact with a sick human.

[Biopeer.blogs.com] Biopeer: Avian Flu (H5N1): They also fear that the present avian strain H5N1 could either combine some of its genes with human influenza like the 1957 and 1968 viruses or it could mutate on its own to become easily contagious among humans, similar to the 1918 virus. Though until now the avian virus has rarely jumped from birds to humans, and even more seldom from human to humans, scientists are worried that it may however, be on the same evolutionary path as the 1918 virus.

http://aetiology.blogspot.com [Aetiology.blogspot.com] Aetiology: Pandemic influenza awareness week. Day 2: Our ...: A report in the October Journal of Infectious Diseases showed that in a group of workers exposed to avian H7N1 and H7N3 influenza viruses during the Italian outbreak of 1999-2003, 7 of 183 people tested were seropositive to at least one of the viruses, suggesting they had been infected during the epidemic. None reported a history of influenza-like illness following exposure to the avian viruses.

Answers.comhttp://www.answers.com [Answers.com] Bird Flu: Information From Answers.com: On September 29, 2005, David Nabarro, the newly appointed Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and HumanInfluenza, warned the world that an outbreak of Avian influenza could kill 5 to 150 million people. Also, due to a bipartisaneffort of the United States Senate, $4 billion dollars was appropriated to develop vaccines and treatments for Avianinfluenza.[6]

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