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[Journal] Mixed risk communications from global bodies threaten pandemic preps: Since the end of 2003, mutation of the H5N1 virus so that it can be easily transmissible among humans has been a nightmare for the world health community, raising concerns of a global influenza pandemic that could claim tens of millions of lives.
[vittoria carsten parlez vous] A Bird-Flu Pandemic Could Start Tomorrow: Because humans alive today have no natural immunity to the H5N1 virus, once it becomes easily transmissible between humans a pandemic or global epidemic will occur. The central question is, when will it exchange enough genetic material .
[Bird Flu Pandemic Alert] Bird flu: India Asks For All Possible Help: “We have to control the disease immediately as the deadly H5N1 virus has been spreading fast,” Rahaman said, adding “avian flu is knocking on the doors of Kolkata,” the eastern state’s congested capital of 13.5 million people.
[Journal] Has Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 come to the US?: Now before we rejoice at the thought of a mild, nonlethal reassortant/recombinant H5N1, recall that in 1918, the second pandemic wave -- not the first wave -- was the murderer. The first wave was passed off as normal, seasonal influenza.
[Allen blog--路爽ã®blog] Effect Measure : Flu in dogs again, but not H5N1: The H3N2 case is probably not a likely pandemic source (despite what the Korean scientists say in their Discussion) because there is widespread immunity to H3N2 in the global population, even though changes in the strain mean the protection varies as the virus mutates. On the other hand, H3N2 keeps infecting humans because it changes enough from year to year to make that immunity less effective and H3N2 is sufficiently virulent on its own that it and H1N1 kill an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Americans yearly.
[rieni] Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) Pandemic, the Cytokine Storm: What ...: If this is the case, the virus may have undergone a final mutation giving it the potential to cause a pandemic. What Are the Symptoms of the Bird Flu: Initial Presentaion of Influenza A (H5N1) Avian Influenza: Pulmonary: .
[gimpy's blog] Peter Chappell - claims to cure bird flu by MP3 quackery, subjects ...: Listen to the download hourly once the Bird Flu (avian influenza - H5N1) starts anywhere on Earth transmitted human to human; ignore bird to human outbreaks.
[LET NOT AMERICA FAIL US!] Emailing: HK Closes Aviaries After Bird Flu Fears ...: HONG KONG - Aviaries at a popular Hong Kong theme park were closed to the public for three weeks beginning Thursday, after tests indicated that a wild heron found dead in the park may have been killed by bird flu, agriculture officials said.
[ONLINE DIARY] Bird Flue! Spreads in India: Health workers burn their bird flu protective gears after culling chickens outside a poultry farm in Margram village, about 240 km (149 miles) north of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata January 17, 2008. Villagers at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in India's east refused to hand over their chickens and ducks for culling on Thursday, hampering efforts to stamp out the deadly disease in poultry.
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