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[Emaxhealth] Perez focused on the avian H9N2 influenza virus for his study, because of avian flu potential for pandemic, creating a genetically engineered hybrid human-avian virus. They used a virus different, though similar to the current swine flu virus, now known as the H1N1 virus, produced from a different strain of virus.

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[Silver Scorpio - International News | Spot News | Top News | Flash News | Live News] Avian flu study offers insight into swine flu outbreak | Silver ...: Perez infected ferrets (considered a good model for human influenza transmission) with the virus he created, and allowed the virus to mutate in the species. Before long, healthy ferrets that shared air space but not physical space with the infected ferret had the virus, showing that the virus had mutated to spread by respiratory droplets.

[Gate2Biotech] Avian Flu Research Sheds Light on Swine Flu Outbreak ...: A recent study by University of Maryland researchers examines the mechanisms underlying transmission of combined avian-human viruses and illustrates how virus outbreaks like that of the current swine flu come about. The study suggests that the ease with which a dangerous avian influenza virus can cause a human flu pandemic may be greater than previously thought.

[Ecology alert] Ecology alert: Pigs: Swine flu plus avian flu (H1N1+H5N1) = Deadly ...: The biggest worry would be if a person or a pig became infected with both swine flu and H5N1 avian flu at the same time. As the former is highly transmissible but does not appear to be particularly lethal, while the latter is highly virulent but does not spread easily, a reassortment between the two could generate a very dangerous strain.

[Suite101 Articles] H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus: Effects of Bird Flu on Infected Birds ...: Very rarely is transmission of the avian influenza virus accomplished from person to person. However, avian influenza viruses can mutate rapidly and the major concern among health experts at this time is that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus may eventually mutate so that it can be transmitted easily from person to person.

[Believe in America] Is It Possible That The Swine Flu Virus Is An Engineered ...: The current vaccines are oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), it is said that the flu is susceptible to those but not guarantee to cure it. Scientist are still doing research on the swine flu because it is rare of the mix of avian-human-swine but remember that viruses evolve through time, so it could be a posibility.

[Miss Moneypenny CPU] Swine Flu Delusions And Flu Facts « Miss Moneypenny CPU: On October 27, 2005, the American Senate approved a $8 billion emergency pandemic preparedness amendment to address the Avian Flu virus. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt received 3.1 billion dollars immediately to begin purchasing 80 million vials of Tamiflu at $100 per dose, a drug that has no relationship to the Bird Flu virus.

[The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette] The 2009 Swine Flu: The Hype and the Response « The Proud ...: Anyone who has read a newspaper, listened to the radio, gone on the internet or watched the evening news on TV over the last week or so, might believe that there is a real possibility that millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of other people throughout the world could be wiped out by a new deadly swine flu virus that is sweeping across the globe. The worldwide media has been turning out countless numbers of stories and producing hundreds of TV special reports about the possibility of a swine flu pandemic, complete with on-site videos with people wearing face masks, colorful graphics and interviews with scores of medical experts-for-hire.  But is all this news coverage based on a genuine concern for the health and safety of the people, or is it just media hype designed to sell newspapers, TV advertising, anti-flu medicines and vaccines?

[Vietnam RSS News Feed by Intellasia.Net] Swine flu arrives in Asia -- Intellasia.Net: China suspended all direct flights from Mexico and sealed 305 people inside a Hong Kong hotel where an infected Mexican tourist stayed. Health workers in white bodysuits patrolled the lobby where the 25-year-old Mexican stayed before he became Asia's first confirmed case late Friday.

[Scientific Blogging] Avian Flu Research Sheds Light On Swine Flu - And Why Influenza A ...: I think there is enough data currently available on the web that makes a very good case that "Mexican Flu" is a spliced human manufactured strain and at this time big pharma stocks are going through the roof as companies line up to manufacture the hundreds of millions of vaccinations needed to stave of this new "Pandemic" not to mention the surgical mask manufacturers. Right there I have a bone of contention, we have a WHO level 5 alert in place when the reality is that out of 6.7 billion people we have under 200 deaths from this "pandemic killer" strain, while in any normal flu season between 30,000 &

[ScienceBlogs : News] Swine flu: humans, a dangerous species : Effect Measure: The current swine virus lacks an important molecular signature (the protein PB1-F2) which was present in the 1918 virus and in the highly lethal H5N1 chicken viruses. If this virulence marker is necessary for an influenza virus to become highly pathogenic in humans or in chickens, then the current swine virus doesn’t have what it takes to become a major killer.

[Homestead Quest] Homestead Quest » Blog Archive » Alberta incident raises prospect ...: The biggest worry would be if a person or a pig became infected with both swine flu and H5N1 avian flu at the same time. As the former is highly transmissible but does not appear to be particularly lethal, while the latter is highly virulent but does not spread easily, a reassortment between the two could generate a very dangerous strain.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Swine Flu Vaccine Tainted With Live Avian Flu-Baxter ...: I previously heard the original broadcast out of Japan regarding the headless chicken like symptoms displayed by people who had gotten the swine flu vaccine. Only it was months ago when Bush and Rumsfeld were still in office.

[TruthNews.us] TruthNews.us » Blog Archive » Swine Flu Hysteria Spreads Faster ...: If the official figures of hundreds infected and just 12 dead are accurate more than a week after the outbreak of the virus, it seems that our first hunch has been proven true. The swine flu story is merely a repeat of the cynical and agenda-driven scare of 1976, when more people ended up dying as a result of taking the vaccine than from the actual virus itself.

[The Big Picture] Swine Flu Strategy Update | The Big Picture: The first and the most infamous is the 1918-20 period involving the “Spanish flu.” That was also a variety of the H1N1 strain. Global deaths in 1918-20 attributable to that flu are estimated at between 40 and 100 million, or somewhere between 2% and 5% of the total world population.

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