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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu
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To: skinowski who wrote (1703)9/28/2004 4:49:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 4232
 
It seems to be playing with fire to continue to keep hens, ducks and other birds when the potential for a large fraction of the world's human population to be dead is only as far away as the mixing of an H5N1 bug in a person suffering an infectious regular human influenza.

That's not even a matter of if, it's a matter of when given that flu and colds are everywhere and the H5N1 keeps on hooking into a few vulnerable people.

All the world's hens aren't worth a tiny fraction of the humans who will be dead if H5N1 and garden variety common cold or regular influenza hook up.

1 billion humans at, I guess, about $200,000 value each = $200 trillion. They can be protected by getting rid of the world's birds. 1 billion x $10 = $10 billion. Okay, that's a bit rough as a calculation but you get the idea.

The Thai government [I think it was] said people shouldn't panic. That means we almost certainly should panic! abc.net.au

<But Kamara Rai, the WHO's acting representative for Thailand, says there is no need to panic.

"We have all agreed the probable human-to-human transmission has occurred through a direct, face-to-face and long contact," he said.

"Even if this limited episode of human-to-human were confirmed, it does not pose a significant public health threat so there is no reason to panic."
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