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The Avian Flu
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Replies: 19Last Post May 8, 2007 6:06pm by Sutra
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Moridin


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The New England Journal of Medicine has published a few articles on person-to-person spread of H5N1.

This MIT Video Lecture deals with it http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/323/

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Quote: from Scui at 9:56 pm on April 24, 2007

There were a couple of isolated cases weren't there?

Not human to human. The virus physically can't do that, yet. Those cases were from constant contact with infected chickens.

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Quote: from Psychade at 4:57 pm on April 25, 2007

Quote: from Scui at 9:56 pm on April 24, 2007

There were a couple of isolated cases weren't there?

Not human to human. The virus physically can't do that, yet. Those cases were from constant contact with infected chickens.


There have been confirmed human-to-human transmissions. See above link at MIT.

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Apparently we were all meant to die with it twice in the last year here in the UK - and no-one did...just 1 swan and a few thousand turkeys that weren't even british .....  

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With the threat of death constantly at my door in one form or the other, I really don't care.  Those millions of people are going to die one day anyway.

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