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To: Taro who wrote (275937)	2/21/2006 5:03:44 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578689

Bummer

To: Taro who wrote (275937)	2/21/2006 8:34:45 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578689

Anyway, the story goes that so far bird flu virus is known to need to make the way via pigs to become groomed for the human to human contagious jump. Sure some theories have come up that this may be possible to happen in the humans as well but so far that hasn't been the case. That would thus call for a H1N1/2 or H2N1/2 type virus to meet the a priori expectations to make the transition from a bird-to-human only to a bird-to-human-to human contagious virus. At the same time that would make it less likely that a H5N1 virus like the current one would ever be able to "mutate" to a pandemical style virus. According to my cousin, its also likely that should it mutate, it will not be as virulent as it is now. Apparently, conditions have to be just right for a pandemic mutation to occur.