| ??? 01/14/06 12:12 Read: times |
#107386 - The Problem Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Steve M. Taylor said:
Farshid Jafari Harandi said:
I've heard it dosen't easily spreads between Humans. The thing is that flu viruses mutate, and even the cases in Turkey are different from the original Asian versions of H5N1. IF it changes only fairly slightly, it could become as virulent as the influenza that killed millions in 1918-1919 - when it killed more than the first world war. Steve They tend to mutate when humans get infected and at present only humans who have lots of contact with birds get infected. Every human who gets it is a factory replicating the virus.These replications are prone to error and the problem is when an error produces a form that is transmitted from human to human. Ubtil that happens we done even know what variant we are fighting so we don't know what to vaccinate against. Fingers crossed. Ian |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Bird Flu | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| We do | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| spread between human | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not yet. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The Problem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Even bigger problem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
More problems | 01/01/70 00:00 |