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[Rutledgeblog.com] Dr. John Rutledge Blog: Must Read; Genetic Sequencing of the 1918 ...: The Taubenberger paper provides strong evidence that the 1918 (Spanish flu) virus was derived solely from a virus that originally infected birds, in contrast to its descendents, the 1957 (Asian flu) and 1968 (Hong Kong flu) viruses that arose when human and bird flu viruses infected the same person at the same time, allowing the genes to mix, a process known as reassortment. "Today, the descendents of this virus continue to cause the majority of influenza infections in humans."

 [Nature.com] news @ nature.com - Bird flu 2005: the ongoing story - News@nature ...: newRows += getNewSubRow('DarksideoftheUniverse', '/news/infocus/DarksideoftheUniverse.html', 'Dark side of the Universe'); newRows += getNewSubRow('dinosaurs', '/news/infocus/dinosaurs.html', 'Dinosaurs'); newRows += getNewSubRow('climatechange', '/news/infocus/climatechange.html', 'Climate change'); newRows += getNewSubRow('futurecomputing', '/news/infocus/futurecomputing.html', 'Future computing'); newRows += getNewSubRow('antibiotics', '/news/infocus/antibiotics.html', 'Antibiotics'); newRows += getNewSubRow('stemcells', '/news/infocus/stemcells.html', 'Stem cells'); newRows += getNewSubRow('birdflu', '/news/infocus/birdflu.html', 'Bird flu');

[Newmediaexplorer.org] 'Bird Flu', SARS - Biowarfare or a Pandemic of Propaganda ...: Please tell me where, based on the numbers the CDC has reported, that I've got it wrong with scientifically sound data that can be independently evaluated for its validity or STOP this program UNLESS you are NOT concerned about potentially being responsible for another vaccine that may kill scores, severely damage thousands and harm hundreds of thousands and will, based on the ineffectiveness of the current influenza vaccines, truly protect less than half of those who are innoculated with it from, if exposed, getting the "bird" influenza -- if "somehow" it mutates or is mutated to be easily transmissible between humans.

[Healthnewsblog.com] Health News Blog -- September, 2005 Archives: The BBC article also notes one depressing aspect of Bird Flu is that is tends to kill young children which makes it that much more alarming and tramatic for Indonesian parents. More information about bird flu can be found in the WHO's bird flu website and the CDC's bird flu website.

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