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nigel Moderator
Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 2320 Location: Skåne, Sweden
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: more good Science |
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Scientists have offered a decent explanation for why the bird flu pandemic we're all supposed to be cowering in our hermetically-sealed Anderson shelters from has yet to materialise.
The H5N1 influenza virus needs to acquire the ability to pass from human to human in order to precipitate the downfall of civilisation. According to virologists reporting in tomorrow's edition of Nature it all comes down to human anatomy.
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CP Moderator
Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 14293 Location: Hampshire
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:04 am Post subject: |
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So good to read something positive. The hysteria does seem to have subsided a little of late, thank goodness!  |
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nigel Moderator
Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 2320 Location: Skåne, Sweden
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
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the BBC have now picked up this story..
| Quote: | | "This may at least in part explain why H5N1 is inefficient at transmitting person to person, although I doubt that it is the complete answer." |
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 9851 Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| thanks nigel something positive for a change |
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summayah
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| It's taken them such a long time to get a true picture of the problem ~ which I find very sad |
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