No point calling it bird flu then.
Time to rename it to cock flu, sounds more human.
"Tan" wrote in message
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Bird Flu in the US is more danger. It is capable to transfer between human
and animal or human.
"none" wrote in message
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> Bird flu capable of human-to-human infection
> (Agencies)
> Updated: 2005-05-19 15:46
>
> GENEVA - A World Health Organisation study in Vietnam has raised the
> possibility that bird flu is becoming more capable of human-to-human
> transmission, the WHO said.
>
> The study of bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam until April 2005, presented
> to a meeting with Asian countries in Manila on May 6, suggested an
> evolution of infections by the H5N1 virus in Vietnam, according to a
> report on the meeting.
>
> A bird flu patient lies under a respirator at Hanoi's Institute for
> Tropical Diseases. A World Health Organisation study in Vietnam has
> raised the possibility that bird flu is becoming more capable of
> human-to-human transmission, the WHO said.(AFP/
> A bird flu patient lies under a respirator at Hanoi's Institute for
> Tropical Diseases. A World Health Organisation study in Vietnam has
> raised the possibility that bird flu is becoming more capable of
> human-to-human transmission, the WHO said. [AFP]
> "The changes in the epidemiological patterns are consistent with the
> possibility that recently emerging H5N1 viruses may be more infectious
> for humans," it said.
>
> While that meant a greater number of people might be infected by
> poultry, there was also evidence that human to human transmission,
> which has already been found several times since the strain was first
> detected in Hong Kong in 1997, was strengthening, the UN health agency
> said.
>
> "It is possible that avian flu viruses are becoming more capable of
> human-to-human transmission," the report said.
>
> "While the implications of these epidemiological and virological
> findings are not fully clear, they demonstrate that the viruses are
> continuing to evolve and pose a continuing and potentially growing
> pandemic threat," the report said.
>
> Fears of that a new deadlier strain of flu might spread rapidly around
> the world on a similar scale to pandemics in the last century have been
> revived with the emergence of the H5N1 bird flu virus among humans in
> Asia.
>
> Fifty-two people have died in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia since late
> 2003, mainly through infection from poultry.
>
> Concern is now heightened because a pandemic strain may develop through
> a series of small steps that taken individually might not be enough to
> signal clearly that an epidemic was about to start, according to the UN
> health agency.
>
> "It is not sudden event but a complex sequence of events that lead to a
> pandemic," said WHO official Richard Nesbit.
>
> The pattern of changes observed in north Vietnam included more and
> larger human clusters of the disease, the increasing mean age of the
> victims and the lower fatality rate.
>
> Analysis of genes from both avian and human forms of H5N1 from several
> countries also suggested changes in the virus, the report said.
>
> The report reiterated the health agency's call for "immediate steps" to
> boost monitoring for possible pandemic influenza in all countries
> affected by H5N1 in birds.
>
> It also recommended that all countries, including those which were
> unaffected by the strain, should move ahead with operational plans to
> tackle a possible global spread of deadlier form of flu.
>
> Other interpretations for the trends observed in Vietnam were raised,
> including transmission through contaminated water or food or infection
> from poultry that carried the virus but did not show symptoms, or
> greater persistence of the virus in the environment.
>
> The experts meting in Manila also considered that the changes seen in
> north Vietnam could be "inconsequential" but dismissed that assessment
> as unlikely.
>
> A second human case of bird flu was identified in under a week in
> Vietnam on Tuesday.
>
> Thirty-six people have died from the disease in Vietnam since late
> 2003.
>
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