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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu

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To: Biomaven who wrote (782)	5/11/2003 6:04:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 4232

Peter, the picture of the bug shows it to be a big ball - if I remember rightly. It's about 10 to 20 times the diameter of a cold or flu virus. That makes its surface area 100 or 400 times bigger [dealing in very rough numbers here - surface area being 4 x pi x r2]. So, that would make it 100 times as slow in camouflaging itself via mutation. The previously infected person's immune system would see nearly all the old bits sticking out and would immediately call for the killer cells to get back on the job. I am making this up as I go and maybe immune systems don't work anything like my idea. Therefore, it won't come back to haunt people once they've recovered. Not for a few years anyway. Maybe actual biologists could say what really happens. Mqurice

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