Re: 'BIRD FLU ERUPTS AGAIN IN CHINA, RUSSIA, THAILAND, VIETNAM'

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Re: 'BIRD FLU ERUPTS AGAIN IN CHINA, RUSSIA, THAILAND, VIETNAM'

Posted on: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:30:48 +0000 (UTC)

"Runge" wrote in message
news:4357ea3c$0$17200$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
> What does he know about it?

He's a doctor

> Does he live in Thailand?

Nope

> ...which is by the way a very nice european country
>

You reckon.

The core message of the poster you replied to is accurate.

Those who have died from this disease caught it from the infected
birds, there has been sign that it can be passed between
humans. The press have made a big thing about how the mortality
rate amongst victims is 50%. What they have neglected to say
is that all those victims worked closely with infected birds.

In order to be more than a threat to poultry workers it needs
to mutate sufficiently to be able to pass from human to human.
The thing is that such a mutation is highly likely to produce
a LESS virulent strain.

The local medical officer of health here in South Cambs put
it this way.

"Yes its possible that it may mutate further AND stay
as virulent as it is but then its also possible a giant meteorite
could crash into County Hall, either way panicking isnt a
solution."

Keith

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