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To: SOROS who started this subject	2/6/2002 12:12:48 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) of 5569

Scientist: Hong Kong Bird Flu Virus Mutating Fast An avian flu sweeping Hong Kong poultry farms is mutating fast and officials are fighting to stop it from evolving into a strain that crossed to humans and killed six people in 1997, a top scientist said Wednesday. "At the moment, it does not present an immediate threat (to humans). But that threat is there if it does happen to go to the right type of reassortment (mutation)," Ken Shortridge, who is studying the virus, said on Hong Kong RTHK radio. "It will need one little chance ... and this could give rise to a serious virus." Earlier, Shortridge told the daily South China Morning Post that the bird flu outbreak came from the same family of viruses that mutated into the deadly human strain in 1997. story.news.yahoo.com.

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