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

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (3976)	2/2/2007 5:04:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 4232

The current death rate, [total so far dead] is 60%. That's with all mod cons, everyone out in force to find any cases and Relenza and Tamiflu and oxygen and all medical facilities available. No doubt most are too late to get very early treatment as they are sure to be treated as just a cold for a start [unless in family of a victim or in a hot spot area]. <H5N1 might never take on the deadly characteristics the Spanish Flu virus has.> It's only missing the contagious activity. It's already vastly more fatal. There is no guarantee at all that it will become less fatal as it humanizes. It seems to kill birds in huge numbers and I don't think that there's a law of nature which says it's not allowed to do the same to humans, just because we don't have feathers or lay eggs. But once again, it has missed the boat for a northern winter pandemic. It'll have to try again in 2009. I think it's a loser and we can safely insult it now. As time goes by, birds will become immune to it, and it won't have carriers to deliver it to humans. It needs to make the move to people before the birds kill it off. Mqurice