Posted on 03/14/2005 4:02:26 AM PST by Stoat
WHO warns of human bird flu mutationThe World Health Organisation (WHO) says the bird flu virus may be changing into a form that humans can pass on. The WHO is worried that bird flu, which has killed 47 people in Asia, could mutate into an easily spread form that sparks the next influenza pandemic. The organisation has identified a cluster of human bird flu cases among relatives and possibly health workers in Vietnam. "Such cases can provide the first signal that the virus is altering its behaviour in human populations and thus alert authorities to the need to intervene quickly," the WHO said in a statement. The main concern of the WHO was a series of cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a family in the northern Vietnam province of Thai Binh and the possible infection of two nurses who cared for one of the patients. The WHO also says it has received confirmation of an additional 10 cases of human infections from Vietnam's Health Ministry. The new cases were detected in early March or through re-examination of older cases, some of which dated back to late January and three of which had been fatal, the WHO said. |
"...the next influenza pandemic..."
It's always something, isn't it?
Well, then Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry need to get off their lazy arses and go out to raise money for a cure!
I guess The Revelation wasn't dealing in useless words after all.
and carriers of it will open armed welcomed here. wait and see
They've been warning this was coming out of Asia sooner or later for months now...
*remembers SARS 'epidemic' here in TO...magnifies by several orders of magnitude...not a pleasant thought...:-(*
The virus has mutated. More reports Click Here
On a WEIRD note, I found this report on the web. India Daily says that Avian Flu may be a weaponized virus, or alternately, the 'extraterrestrials' may have designed the virus. The implication is that e-t's intend to cull our human population. Seriously. This report is weird.
Seems that IndiaDaily believes extraterrestrials are walking our planet right now.
Time to stock up on Theraflu!
Bio weapon accidents have happened before...Would not surprise me one bit though...All it would take is a bunch of Islamokazi's to get infected to get the ball rolling...
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