Bird Flu Monitor > South Korea Bangladesh India H5N1 Levels Raise Concerns

Recombinomics Whats New[Recombinomics Whats New] These reports of record levels of H5N1 in these areas raises concerns that as wild birds fly to common nature reserves at the intersections of major flyways, the H5N1 from each region will recombine and generate more genetic diversity, which will the spread south in the fall.

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Avian Flu[Avian Flu] Move and Mix: On the one hand, you would think that the H5N1 virus would be less likely to cause major outbreaks among humans the longer it spreads without learning to efficiently move from person to person. On the other hand, the longer it is around, the wider it is distributed, the more opportunities the virus has to recombine with influenza viruses that have the ability to move quickly from person to person.

一步先生http://dfzt.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!FDD282EFAD787373!748.entry [一步先生] bird-flu menace 禽流感恐慌: In America, the Bush administration, following criticism of its response to Hurricane Katrina, is straining to demonstrate it is alert to the risks the disease poses, and is expected shortly to publish an emergency plan for dealing with a bird-flu outbreak, which the government has been working on for some time. Canada will host a summit of health ministers and officials later this month, to discuss international co-ordination of efforts to curb the disease’s spread.

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