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[Avian Flu Diary] "The virus is still very stable," WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan told reporters at a news briefing in Moscow when asked if there were any signs of the virus mixing with other strains such as avian flu.

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[Flu News Network] Canada: MB: Chiefs ask for state of emergency over flu « Flu News ...: “With the H1N1 virus spreading rapidly through the communities and supplies taking nearly a month to be delivered, the First Nations people are at too much risk for this situation to continue any longer,” says AMC Grand Chief Ron Evans.

[The Standard] Treasury on swine flu at The Standard: This has been attributed to the circumstances of the first World War. The Chinese pig herd (and probably others as well) is also thoroughly infected with avian flu and the worst-case scenario is a virus with both different critter flu characteristics: the ready contagion of swine flu and the high mortality rate of avian flu.

[Not Another CONspiracy] Not Another CONspiracy: Swine Flu Deaths outpacing Bird Flu Deaths: Swine Flu statistics (current as of 22 June 2009) are from 24 April 2009 to 22 June 2009, or 2 months. What does matter are the plans in place to stop the spread of the H1N1 swine flu and its Mutations, which I have mentioned here before.

[bunnie's blog] On Influenza A (H1N1) « bunnie's blog: the Nature article indicates that perhaps certain human mutants have lungs that do not listen on the H5 port. So, those of us with the mutation that causes lungs to ignore the H5 port would have a better chance of surviving an Avian flu infection, whereas as those of us that open port H5 on the lungs have no chance to survive make your time / all your base pairs are belong to H5N1.

[news | HT | http://www.blueridgenow.com] How a Mild Virus Might Turn Vicious | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times ...: But flu viruses are highly mutable, and anything could happen in the next two years, the time a new strain normally takes to circle the globe. After all, Spanish influenza began as a mild strain, then turned horrifically virulent, killing 20 million to 100 million people in 1918-19.

[Flu Wiki | Science / Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Science - H 5 N 1 Hemagglutinin Sequences: While those viruses that do not have Ds, asparates, in both locations can of course infect humans occasionally, as can be seen here, these are not the H1N1(A) sequences that were sampled from the 1918 pandemic and the yearly flu seasons thereafter. Those that have other amino acids in both locations, especially a G, glycine, at position 43, are generally samples from swine.

[Bird Flu Monitor] Bird Flu Monitor: Avian Flu (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics) » Free ...: They have begun comparing the genetic mutations in the 1918 flu to those being seen in the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is killing tens of millions of poultry and some people in Asia, .No, Really, Swine Flu Is Not A Threat - Nick's .

[Life Sciences Blog] Swine Flu Disease : Companies Invoved in Devloping Treatments for ...: The table below lists the various subtypes of the Type A .This virus originated in birds and mutated itself enough to acquire the ability to infect humans”¦.In the early months of 1918 (the final year of World War I), a wave of flu appeared in the military camps all over U.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12.160Mhz] Seasonal flu viruses contained live bird flu virus - live H5N1 ...: Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the ”˜Spanish Flu’, with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.

[Sleep News Blog] Swine Flu is a Very Real Threat to the World - Only Urgent ...: The test performance of rapid antigen tests and immunofluorescence tests for detection of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus is unknown. Persons who are suspected of having swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus and who test positive for the same using one of these tests should then have confirmatory RT-PCR or viral culture testing to confirm the presence of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus.

[BBC NEWS | Fergus On Flu] BBC - Fergus On Flu: What's happening in the United States ?: I heard with interest that the post-mortem on the woman that died of swine flue in Scotland was organ failure, and I was wondering if she had been using a cordless comuter keyboard. I had a nasty experience with one, when I had a touch of flue in April this year I found some of my organs was failing I felt that only one of my lungs was wrking and for 3 days I did not eat or sleep I actually thought I was going to die, and it was the thoughtfullness of my wife that brought me round.

[Flu Wiki | Consequences / Recent Changes] Flu Wiki - Consequences - Declan Butler's Scenario: At the overcrowded hospital, I saw victims collapsing, suffocating in their own lung fluid, blood streaming from their noses and gums. Others had longer ordeals, tortured by encephalitis as the virus ate into their brains, or overwhelmed by multiple organ failure.

[Thailand Land of Smiles] The Great Swine Flu Hoax Hits Thailand | Thailand Land of Smiles: like the 1918 Spanish flu due to the many lives it seemed to take, and given the way it spreads now that’d be a reason to worry. But now this new flu even looks less strong than a normal flu, most of casualties in Mexico were from a “normal”

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