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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (982)	10/14/2005 1:40:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Asian Shots Are Proposed as Flu Fighter [NYT] By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: October 13, 2005 To head off a global pandemic of avian flu, some scientists are advancing a novel strategy: that poultry workers and farmers in Asia get the same vaccine that Americans and Europeans are given to protect against conventional flu. The goal, these virologists say, is to keep the Asians from becoming "mixing vessels" for human and bird strains. "The idea is simple," said Dr. Daniel Perez, a flu virus expert at the University of Maryland. If a poultry worker is unlucky enough to catch both conventional and avian flu, Dr. Perez said, the fear is that the human and bird viruses will mix in a process called reassortment. The mixing might create a virus that would spread easily from human to human, leading to a global pandemic of avian flu. But if the workers are vaccinated against human influenza, he said, "they can't catch it, so you won't get reassortment."... nytimes.com Message 21788614