[orionblamblam]

Fortunately, the Kansas School Board will vote the avian flu out of existence.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[backhoe]

Strange New Disease Outbreaks-- Click the picture:

[Jim Noble]

Well, since ALL influenza A isolates are mutating constantly, so much so that vaccine which is effective in November may be ineffective by February, we have another "bird flu" non-story.

[Jim Noble]

it said the virus had developed resistance to anti-flu agents Amatadine and Rimantadine.

Which was published in 2001.

Get a clue, VNexpress.

[leadhead]

Vietnam study shows bird flu mutating-media

I thought the media was already a bird flu mutation

[He Rides A White Horse]

I get a funny feeling that the Chinese government is playing around with things they shouldn't be playing with.

For a country as populous as they are, I think they don't mind if several million of their own citizens get wiped out in the process. After all, this is a country with strict reproductive laws.

[neverdem]

Van said the study had showed an antigenic shift involving major antigenic changes of the influenza surface proteins, the HA and NA molecules.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this recombination, i.e. the swapping of whole genes? Isn't this the more feared scenario as opposed to insertions, deletions, single nucleotide polymorphisms, etc.?