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If what is spreading silently is a mild strain, isn't that a good sign?....silent spread of H5N1 in human populations sets the stage for increased transmission efficiencies and a serious, if not catastrophic, pandemic.
There is a lot of virulent H5N1 in Egypt and elsewhere. Mild H5N1 gets into the human population and increases transmission efficiency, which can then recombine with virulent H5N1 (as in elegant evolution).If what is spreading silently is a mild strain, isn't that a good sign?
How could something mild become catastrophic? Would any H274Y recombination impact virulence, independent of the antiviral resistance?
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Please. 10 of the 11 cases this season were toddlers. Egypt played the "toddler card" in Febraury, when the first four cases in 2009 were toddlers. Now it's 10/11. The data are VERY easy to interpret (no hand waving required).Let's remember, it's Dr. niman, and Dr. niman only, who is putting the "mild- spin" on things. To conclude that the last two toddlers are infected with a new "mild" strain, that is spreading none the less, is an enormous leap, or a spin of some sort. The toddlers contracted h5n1 because they were playing (or somehow came in contact) with dead fowl. Nothing more, nothing less. Since we have a couple toddlers infected back to back, Dr. Niman is simply playing the "toddler-card", since everybody is aware that pandemics strike the young. He knows it, and he is playing it up. What does it matter since nobody will remember his claims next week?
We should start another Egypt thread since this one has become less accurate with the wild speculation mixed in.
Drew
A CFR of ZERO is also an easy call, especially when 11 cases have been confirmed this season (and 16/17 survivors in the spring of 2007 was also an easy call).If one of the toddlers dies, does that mean we're now back to the lethal strain again?
What about sequences and data, and facts??? Why hold entire discussions about things that are not true and completely unverified?
And when we find out there is no mild strain spreading, then what? Should we continue to believe Dr. Niman in the future? If he's wrong about the mild strain circulating, could he also be wrong about all of the clusters he sees in every outbreak too?![]()
But only toddlers are testing positive, suggesting they are MISSING antibodies.
Although the above comments are well into the nonsense category and ignore data that is well into the obvious category, it is worth reviewing the recent data in Egypt, since these developments may be among the most important to date with regard to a catastrophic H5N1 pandemic.Let's remember, it's Dr. niman, and Dr. niman only, who is putting the "mild- spin" on things. To conclude that the last two toddlers are infected with a new "mild" strain, that is spreading none the less, is an enormous leap, or a spin of some sort. The toddlers contracted h5n1 because they were playing (or somehow came in contact) with dead fowl. Nothing more, nothing less. Since we have a couple toddlers infected back to back, Dr. Niman is simply playing the "toddler-card", since everybody is aware that pandemics strike the young. He knows it, and he is playing it up. What does it matter since nobody will remember his claims next week?
We should start another Egypt thread since this one has become less accurate with the wild speculation mixed in.
Drew
From February report on H5N1 in EgyptLet's remember, it's Dr. niman, and Dr. niman only, who is putting the "mild- spin" on things. To conclude that the last two toddlers are infected with a new "mild" strain, that is spreading none the less, is an enormous leap, or a spin of some sort. The toddlers contracted h5n1 because they were playing (or somehow came in contact) with dead fowl. Nothing more, nothing less. Since we have a couple toddlers infected back to back, Dr. Niman is simply playing the "toddler-card", since everybody is aware that pandemics strike the young. He knows it, and he is playing it up. What does it matter since nobody will remember his claims next week?
We should start another Egypt thread since this one has become less accurate with the wild speculation mixed in.
Drew
Officials said he did not concern the spread of the disease Village
Official bird flu injured relatives and neighbors
الأحد، 5 أبريل 2009 - 11:22Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 11:22
المريضان يبلغ عمرهما عامين وعاما و9 أشهرPatients aged two years and years and 9 months
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub="tonyawad";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"></script> <!-- AddThis Button END -->فA Magdy Attallah Al-Chief of the Unit for the local center town of Badr in Beheira, the 61 cases and 62 of the bird-flu-affected children, Mohamed El-Shahat Mohamed Hassan Amer, two years, and Jamil Hassan Mohamed Hassan Amer, years and 9 months, with two children and live in adjacent houses and there is no is reason for concern about the spread of the disease in the village,
pointing out that the discovery of the No. 62 came in the wake of the Committee of Five, consisting of health and veterinary medicine and the environment, security and the local unit to clean the child's home as soon as infection is suspected in the case 61, and suspected in 62 cases the situation has been booked Bhmyat revealed Damanhour analysis of HIV infection.
:tiphat:
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