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nigel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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