[Grendel9]

I ran across this site when googling the FLU. I was trying to find out where it originated and when. Not sure this site answers that question sufficiently, but the number of different strains is definitely impressive! And they have been tracking these strains for decades. To date there are 15 variations, 9 of them already found in humans...all with the potential of causing death under the right negative conditions in any individual.

So far, all of the cases of human infection have been through contact with live poultry. And to date, there is no evidence that these people are of the socio/economic means who would be found traveling on air lines or any commercial transport. Yet, the pandemic theory prevails.

It comes to mind that since most humans do NOT handle birds, the virus might well be detected first in dogs, cats, and other species which live part of their lives outdoors, then come into our homes where they have even closer contact with us than a bird handler does with his charges.

[najida]

My question is how is it transmitted? Mosquitoes or direct contact?

I have a reason for this question.

[spyone]

Check out this site. It is excellent.
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/

[Chanticleer]

It looks like dogs are not susceptible, but cats are. Cats as bird flu pandemic detectors

Cats, not canaries, will serve as sentinels for bird flu, said Dr. Lewis. There are 70 million cats in America, which makes them more common than songbirds and a more reliable source of information. An H5N1 outbreak at a Thai zoo laid waste to its tiger population, which had been fed infected chickens, revealing the feline vulnerabilities to the virus. So far, dogs have not proven susceptible to bird flu.

[Termite_Commander]

Actually, there has been at least one W.H.O. confirmed "cluster" of cases. Basically, the virus went bird-to-human-to-human-stop.

According to Indonesia, there have been an increasing number of human cluster cases lately.

[Post-Neolithic]

The two sites I use most often for this ( I get tired of looking for information only to get pop-ups and very little info) are,

Avianinfluenza.org

CDC.gov