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To: TigerPaw who wrote (255602)	10/16/2005 12:50:06 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572471

"Why is H5N1 Bird Flu suddenly so much in the news?" Message 21795857 "During the past two months cases of bird flu have shown up in Russia, Finland, and Turkey -- so Europe became very concerned. When it spread to Indonesia a few weeks ago - Australia, only 100 miles away, began to hold weekend drills for emergency and medical personnel in fighting a pandemic and they poured more money into developing a vaccine against bird flu." "What disturbed me and many others was the outbreak in Indonesia quickly involved many people who had simply visited a public zoo, apparently having no actual contact with the animals. Worse still relatives of the sick people, who did not visit the zoo soon became sick as well. Until this happened, Bird Flu was just another minor news item for me." "Much of the press coverage here does not accurately report these facts correctly, relying on language like - no confirmed human to human transmission has been confirmed. I have no idea what they mean by that. Human to human transmission has obvious happened, I have no idea what Deity has not yet confirmed the obvious facts. I can only assume that they don't trust Indonesian Doctors and health authorities because they look foreign. Australia certainly believes their reports of human-to-human transmission."