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

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (2772)	10/19/2005 4:48:58 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 4232

If humans can contract a virus, they can contract it from another infected human. A virus may lack the characteristics needed which would make it highly infectious or highly transmissible. That is an entirely different subject. But there has never been a virus capable of infecting humans which cannot be transmitted by humans to humans. Again you'll have to take your position up with the CDC.......they don't agree with you: "How does bird flu spread? Infected birds shed flu virus in their saliva, nasal secretions, and feces. Susceptible birds become infected when they have contact with contaminated excretions or surfaces that are contaminated with excretions. It is believed that most cases of bird flu infection in humans have resulted from contact with infected poultry or contaminated surfaces. The spread of avian influenza viruses from one ill person to another has been reported very rarely, and transmission has not been observed to continue beyond one person." cdc.gov