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Re: 'BIRD FLU ERUPTS AGAIN IN CHINA, RUSSIA, THAILAND, VIETNAM' Posted on: 21 Oct 2005 06:23:40 CEST

yes I just enjoy all these people who know all the facts better than others

"Keith W" a écrit dans le message de
news: dj8r98$3gp$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
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> "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
>