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[PurpleTigron (purpletigron)] "The H5N1 avian flu virus has killed more than 60 people in Asia. If the virus becomes easy to pass from person to person, some experts predict up to 50 percent of people where the virus is circulating could become ill, and 5 percent could die."
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[The Reaction -- by Michael J.W. Stickings] Avian flu: The next pandemic?: Bush and French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin calling for international cooperation to confront the "first pandemic of the 21st century," the international community was far from prepared."
[salto mortale] AVIAN INFLUENZA: WHAT TO DO NOW: . Also today, World Health Organization officials confirmed the first case of avianflu in a farmworker in the island nation of Indonesia. Known as avianflu because it infects primarily chickens... on Tamiflu and Relenza, virus inhibitors that could prevent you from contracting avian influenza
[Nature.com] Avian flu special The flu pandemic: were we ready? : Nature: Samples sent to labs in the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network showed he was infected with an H5N1 avian flu virus, but one that differed from earlier isolates. It had mutated.
[Scienceblog.com] Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu | Science Blog: Supported by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O.), the team has sent the samples (774 in total) to the U.S.D.A.'s Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, for further testing to determine whether this virus is the H5N1 strain that has killed over 50 people in Southeast Asia and more than 5,000 wild birds in western China. As of today, preliminary tests from one dead whooper swan collected in Mongolia have shown the presence of the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza using RT-PCR, while results from 30 live whooper swans living at the same site and also a nearby lake were negative for the virus.
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