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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: regli who wrote (37326)9/15/2005 8:57:35 PM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
bird flue go.reuters.com

Avian flu will mutate and become transmissible by humans and the world has no time to lose to stop it becoming a pandemic, the head of the U.N. World Health Organization said on Thursday.

. . .
"Human influenza is coming, we know that, and no government, no leaders can afford to be caught off-guard," Lee said.

. . .

Most of the people killed in Asia since 2003 caught the virus from infected birds. Health experts say the greatest worry is that the highly pathogenic strain of the disease known as H5N1 could mutate and become transmissible between people.

Lee said H5N1 "will acquire this capability -- it's just an issue of timing." Countries far from heavily hit Southeast Asian states would not be safe because the disease was spreading through migratory wildfowl, Lee added.
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