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2005-11-12 China-Japan-Koreas

Bird flu 'out of control' in Chinese province

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Posted by lotp 2005-11-12 08:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Even worse - it's spreading from birds to pigs - BAD NEWS - we're one step away.....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-11-12 13:43|| 2005-11-12 13:43|| Front Page Top

#2 A swine herd was found I think in Vietnam some months ago. The top epidemologist in the region said that each pig was acting like a small bio lab, with several strains fighting each other for dominance; but the herd as a group would take these "semi-finalists", and compete them with each other to generate the "best" strain.

Definitely, herds and flocks speed up the mutation process thousands of times.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-12 16:43|| 2005-11-12 16:43|| Front Page Top

#3 The pigs allow the virus to acquire mammal specific adaptations. I read a while back there might be 25 such adaptions required to become a full blown pandemic strain. How many can be acquired in pigs and how many can only be acquired by infecting humans is unknown.

Despite all the hullabulloo over H5N1 in birds, I am certain that the actual threat of a pandemic strain coming directly from birds to humans is somewhere between very small and non-existant.

Posted by phil_b 2005-11-12 22:40|| 2005-11-12 22:40|| Front Page Top

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