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To: Grainne who wrote (103666)5/10/2005 7:55:22 PM
From: Henry Niman  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
WSN/33 is lethal in mice. There have been no reported human infections. However Korean imports pigs from the US, so the WSN/33 in Korean pigs may be due to import of US pigs. I don't think anyone has looked at the US pigs for WSN/33 (but the US pigs have a less lethal H1N2 virus that appears to have been exported to Korea).

H5N1 in northern Vietnam is less lethal (20% case fatality rate), but more transmissible. As human H5N1 infections increase, the chance of recombination with H3N2 increases, which could make the virus more transmissible.

However, H5N1 in southern Vietnam still has a 100% case fatality rate, so it could recombine with the northern recombinant and create a virus highly transmissible with a high fatality rate. There is a lot of H5N1 floating around Vietnam and Thailand that infect humans (and now reports are coming out of India).

Lots of virus, lots of possibilities. lots of death and destruction.
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