China Admits Bird Flu Jumped to Pigs, WHO Claims World Closer to Pandemic (from ATSNN), page
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Topic started on 23-8-2004 @ 07:39 AM by koji_K
The World Health Organization has claimed that the world is one step closer to a human flu pandemic after the H5N1 "bird flu" virus was found to have infected pigs last year.




story.news.yahoo.com
PENANG, Malaysia (AFP) - The discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in Chinese pigs has taken the world closer to a human flu pandemic but there is no need to panic yet, the World Health Organisation said.

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Speaking to AFP after the Chinese government admitted Monday that the H5N1 virus was found in pigs last year, Omi said: "We would like to know how widespread it is and how this infection took place.

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The ramifications of infection among pigs could be extremely grave, as researchers fear it might be the first step of a mutation of the virus into a form that could spread more easily to humans.





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I think the article speaks for itself. What can you say?

Related News Links:
www.who.int
www.cdc.gov
news.bbc.co.uk

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reply posted on 21-11-2004 @ 02:43 AM by niman
The problem with H5N1 in swine is very widespread. H5N1 seqeunces from Fujian and Shandong Provinces have been deposited at GenBank

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...

but the problem is more widespread. The virus recombines

www.recombinomics.com...

and pieces of genes related to the swine isolates can be found in H5N1 and H9N2 isolates throughout China.

The virus is clearly many steps ahead of investigators and is preparing for a full scale attack (possibly this year)

www.recombinomics.com...
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