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China bird flu mutates; might infect mammals

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By GILLIAN WONG and MALCOLM RITTER

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That picture is funny: When Birds go Foal, You are all Flocked!

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So that means the H7N9 may change into H7N1 or something and create another pandemic as H1N1 of 1918. China may be getting too good at exporting.

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The media hysteria is underway. It won't be long before NHK is showing mask-wearing people at the airport, incoming people are held in quarantine, companies cancel business trips etc. The virus will get here regardless.

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Ok. Then, everyone DU

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DUCK!

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Good grief ... always something new health-wise to worry about. Saw on TV this morning where there was a waiting room filled with flu-sufferers somewhere around Shanghai. Hope they get the new stuff under control 'cause if it heads Japan's way it could be worse than PM 2.5. Wish China doesn't start "exporting" this new virus strain, too ...

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How did I know I would come on this thread and see people blaming China as though they were willingly exporting a virus? Sheesh, people... really. Helping it to grow and spread? absolutely! but no more than the factory farms in Kanoya, Kagoshima, as an example. This is a problem HUMANITY has created, not China alone. The pandemic is coming, without a doubt, and it'll take about a million or so people in its wake. But stop blaming the Chinese! Blame corporate culture and 'modern farming'.

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I am beginning of worrying about the genetic sequence of the H7N9 virus. Because they are very silent. I hope this small outbreak in China won't be in the wake of the pandemic.

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