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[The Great Red Comet] Virtual Pandemic: 90 Days to Infect Entire U.S.: Researchers assumed a starting point of 10 highly infectious influenza cases in Los Angeles, then let the model take it from there. The virus spread quickly, peaking in just 90 days with 100 or more infections per 1,000 residents of just about every corner of the country [Animated Map].
[Latest Health News Articles - Al-Hikmah Health] Avian Flu Vaccine Offers Hope Coupled With... : In the past two years, the H5N1 strain of avian flu has infected poultry throughout Southeast Asia, prompting health officials to order the destruction of millions of birds to prevent the virus' spread to people. So far, human infections have been limited, with an estimated 65 deaths, most of them in Vietnam.
[Lawnorder.blogspot.com] lawnorder: Flu Wiki - Resources - Significant essays: “We analyzed strategies for the use of stockpiled antiviral drugs in the context of a future influenza pandemic, estimating cost-benefit ratios. Current stockpiling of oseltamivir appears to be cost-saving to the economy under several treatment strategies, including therapeutic treatment of patients and postexposure prophylactic treatment of patients’ close contacts.”
[Washtimes.com] Bird flu too deep in human lungs to spread easily - Nation ...: This helps explain why all people who have been stricken with the bird-flu virus, H5N1, became sick after directly handling infected poultry, rather than by having contact with infected people. The studies suggest that it will not be as easy as some had thought for H5N1 to mutate for efficient human-to-human transmission.
[Xark.typepad.com] Xark!: H5N1: The number of human cases of H5N1 in Turkey are surprising and worth monitoring, and that's about all I'm willing to say right now beyond this: I've moved Effect Measure back up to a daily read again. The Reveres have had some interesting things to say in the past week.
[Thebishop.net] Geodog: The Bird Flu: Is a perfect storm brewing? Fools rush in ...: That means that you can give someone the flu before you know you're sick as well as while you are sick." The onset is less sudden, and less clearly something very dangerous. (And now that the amount of vaccine in the United States has been cut in half, it would be much harder to tell who had the normal flu, which only kills 36,000 people every year, predominantly the elderly, and who had the bird flu.
[Hughhewitt.com] Hugh Hewitt: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives: Here's an excerpt of my interview yesterday with Majority Leader Frist. It deals with fundamental questions of who's in charge in the event of the appearance of H5N1 in the U.S., both as to the increasingly likely appearance of the virus among birds, and the not yet likely but still potentially ominous appearance of the disease in humans. I did not get from the interview that there is any clear delineation of authority.
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