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

To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (4050)	8/31/2007 1:06:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 4232

The human to human transmission is over-dramatized. If the virus can get from a hen to a person, then it can get from a person to a person just as easily, but more easily because people are more inclined to kiss other people than to kiss chickens. The only reason human to human transmission is of interest is if the virus has been humanized by combination with readily transmissible garden-variety influenza, common cold or some such. If it's the same virus, then even a daisy chain of 10 people being infected doesn't matter to the rest of us, except that each case gives the virus another chance to recombine into a highly transmissible form. Until it has done so, it's just the same old virus without the ability to go critical in humans. Mqurice