Tuesday, March 07, 2006

One flew into the cuckoo's nest...

Bird Flu: the next pandemic? I've been reading on the subject from various sources and from what I can read this will be a big problem. I don't think I'll start stocking up on Tamiflu but maybe I should.

Accorcding to WHO "The risk of pandemic influenza is serious. With the H5N1 virus now firmly entrenched in large parts of Asia, the risk that more human cases will occur will persist. Each additional human case gives the virus an opportunity to improve its transmissibility in humans, and thus develop into a pandemic strain"






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