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Divinus Arma
05-23-2006, 22:36
Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients (Update1)
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- All seven people infected with bird flu in a cluster of Indonesian cases can be linked to other patients, according to disease trackers investigating possible human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus.

A team of international experts has been unable to find animals that might have infected the people, the World Health Organization said in a statement today. In one case, a 10-year- old boy who caught the virus from his aunt may have passed it to his father, the first time officials have seen evidence of a three-person chain of infection, an agency spokeswoman said. Six of the seven people have died.

It seems that this has happened before according to the article. It spreads human to human when people live in close proximity to an infected person.

No casual contact pandemic mutation yet.

Article. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aWESsJvt6CFE&refer=asia)

Rodion Romanovich
05-23-2006, 22:39
This bird flu is mutating so slowly that I bet that before the bird flu mutates to become any dangerous we'll all die in the unexpected, quickly appearing pig flu.

Strike For The South
05-24-2006, 01:32
If poultry kills me it'll have a good reason.

BHCWarman88
05-24-2006, 03:56
oh well,I'm not worry till it hit America, then I be worry,not Scared.. but I love Meat and Poutlry damn it..

Csargo
05-24-2006, 05:26
I'm not going to be worried about it til it kills me.

Duke Malcolm
05-24-2006, 11:04
I'm not going to worry until it appears in this Northern Outpost of Great Britain...

Oh wait, it already has! Aaaaaaaagh!!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!!!!!!!! to the Hills!!!!!!!

ZombieFriedNuts
05-24-2006, 11:16
Were all doomed, doomed I tell you.
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caravel
05-24-2006, 16:02
How many people have actually died of this among that vast, poultry eating, region of asia to date? :inquisitive:

Avicenna
05-24-2006, 18:38
Experts predict that something like 1/3 of the population could die in this kind of epidemic, Cheziscrotus. Before, it was only bird-human. If it's gone human-human, there will be major problems. Think Spanish flu. This is also Influenza, and it's mutated a little bit so that we're once again vulnerable.

master of the puppets
05-24-2006, 18:47
hmm, i wonder how many times people predicted mass destruction via viral infection and it was nothing (SARS) and how many times they did predict it and we got hit hard.

BHCWarman88
05-24-2006, 21:20
Yeah,Look at SARS.. People made a big deal about it,but you never hear anything about it now..