Bird Flu Monitor > Some thoughts on the age distribution of H5N1 cases

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure [Effect Measure] It is the young and young adult most likely to have close contact with infected birds, and since this contact is a feature in their clinical history that calls attention to the possibility of H5N1 infection, they are diagnosed more readily than the elderly who don't give this history. That leaves open the possibility that other kinds of exposure might be involved, something we see no reason to rule out with the present evidence.

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