10.01.04

Pass on the Thai Chicken

Posted in health at 7:33 am by James

I found this article on the nytimes about the Bird Flu in Thailand. Apparently its back and already in 4 provinces. I think the biggest worry is that the virus may aquire human influenza genetic material and make it contagious by humans. The article cites the mutation that occured in hong kong:

Hong Kong flu that killed several million people worldwide in 1968, the hemagglutinin protein was unchanged from avian influenza hemagglutinin proteins, but some of the other genetic segments had absorbed human influenza genetic material.

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