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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chomolungma who wrote (1188)	1/12/2004 2:33:01 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4232

I agree - better to have the text here, not just the link. But it's good to keep the link as well, as sometimes there are follow-ups on the other site. The issue was dual posting on two separate SI threads. My preference is to keep this the primary SARS thread and have duplicate posts elsewhere (like the Valuation thread) only where there's also relevance to financial-related issues and/or SARS-related stock plays. Peter

To: chomolungma who wrote (1188)	1/12/2004 5:20:20 PM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 4232

In a striking parallel with last year's SARS pandemic, fatal human bird flu (H5N1) cases have been identified in Vietnam. discuss.agonist.org There was a fatal bird to human flu jump last year just before the SARS pandemic exploded.

To: chomolungma who wrote (1188)	1/12/2004 5:40:22 PM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 4232

Here's an early report from last year when SARS was initially thought to be caused by H5N1 flu jump: [UPDATE:2/24/03 The H5N1 Influenza has no human influenza genes, and thus cannot spread from human to human.] Reports of a mysterious pneumonia have been arriving from Guangdong Province of China since November 2002. At least five people have died and 305 hospitalized, including about 100 health care workers. Recently two cases (one fatal) of "bird flu" (Influenza H5N1) were confirmed in an adjoining province, and may be the cause of the pneumonia outbreak. Influenza H5N1 caused a scare several years ago when it appeared in Hong Kong and killed several people. Because this virus normally does not infect humans, people have no natural immunity to it. As a result, fears have been raised that it could become another pandemic like the "Spanish Flu" of 1918, which killed 100,000,000 people. The previous H5N1 outbreak in Hong Kong died out with few human cases, suggesting that the strain was not terribly infectious. At that time, large numbers of chickens were killed and poultry meat markets closed to contain the outbreak. If the new pneumonia outbreak is a result of H5N1, this new strain has already caused many more infections than the previous outbreak. tinyvital.com