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Virulent H5N1 bird flu confirmed in dead swans in Akita

Tuesday 29th April, 04:37 PM JST

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  • MichaelJP at 06:44 PM JST - 29th April

    Everybody panic!!!!

  • jambon at 07:14 PM JST - 29th April

    Flu is avian in nature so what's new?

  • MichaelJP at 07:47 PM JST - 29th April

    jambon: Flu is avian in nature so what's new?

    Maybe its of interest since H5N1 is highly pathogenic with a 60% mortality rate when transmitted to humans. It kills via a "cytokine storm" in the immune system of healthy adults resulting in massive organ system failures throughout the body. If H5N1 becomes more virulent and human-to-human transmissible, then we could have a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic which killed people in the same way and resulted in the death of between 2.5% and 5% of the entire world's population.

  • JeromeInJapan at 10:59 PM JST - 29th April

    At times like this I wish I was a vegetarian.

  • jambon at 11:18 PM JST - 29th April

    since H5N1 is highly pathogenic with a 60% mortality rate when transmitted to humans

    Nice try.

    Yet evidence continually mounts that while there may well be another flu pandemic of some sort, there's virtually no chance it will be H5N1. Recently reported research from David Finkelstein and his colleagues at St. Jude Hartwell Center in Memphis, Tennessee, is just the latest nail in the chicken coop.

    http://www.fumento.com/disease/birdflu.html

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