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No sign bird flu becoming more infectious -expert 06 Apr 2006 16:28:00 GMT, By David Brough http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0649738.htm CAMBRIDGE, England, April 6 (Reuters) - A leading bird flu expert said on Thursday there was no evidence that the virus was showing any signs of mutating into a form that would be more infectious in humans. But Ian Brown, head of avian influenza at Britain's Veterinary Laboratories Agency, an official lab that tests for the virus, also said that it was extremely difficult to track bird flu as it mutated.
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
Ian Brown has withheld most of the H5N1 sequences in Europe. He should release the data and let the scientific community determine what is and isn't important.Originally posted by dottore_pesta -
Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
Originally posted by niman
Yes, all the sequences, everywhere, should be released. It is a crime against humanity to withhold this kind of information.Comment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
Why isn't he? Profit?Originally posted by nimanComment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
He is waiting for publication of manuscripts (some of which have not been written).Originally posted by ukczComment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
It that a legitimate excuse?Originally posted by nimanComment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
So for credit rather than profit, or do the two go hand in hand?Originally posted by nimanComment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
At the risk of clouding the issues here (and unnecessarily raising the anxiety level), I'd like to ask a question about vectors of transmission here for bird-flu related diseases.
1) As Recombinmoics has noted, there's a chance for the virus to combine with swine-related genetic material. That would create a humanly transmissble virus similar, I imagine, to swine flue.
2) An animal-borne disease, indicated by recent infections among cats, dogs, martens, minks, etc. Perhpas the vector here would be fleas, such as occurs with one fom of the Bubonic bacterium.
3) A variant of the disease that occurs after some incubation in the African continent, where HIV-induced low immune systems make what some epidemiologists have called a perfect incubation environment.Comment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
Ian Brown is in the scientific committee of Offlu now
http://www.offlu.net/Organization/tabid/53/Default.aspx
it has been quiet about Offlu recentlyI'm interested in expert panflu damage estimates
my current links: http://bit.ly/hFI7H ILI-charts: http://bit.ly/CcRgTComment
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Re: Bird Flu Mutating? No evidence, says expert
So is Ilaria Capua - may be she can persuade him of the error of his ways.Originally posted by gsgsComment
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