On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:30 +0000, Julian Bradley wrote:
> It seems that some are low pathogenicity and we generally don't need
> to worry about them, even if not previously exposed.
> Influenza A H5N1 is on the other hand highly pathogenic - hence the
> mortality of 50%.
But it isn't very transmissible yet. THe human version may get the
vicious end of the genome, like the SPanish Flu that was reassembled
recently... or it might get the less vicious end. No way to know
AFAICS, unless the danger and the H were so close as to not assort
independetly... how far are they apart on its RNA?
> However I think the idea of us building a wiki of pandemic flu
> knowledge would be terrific. Does anyone have the technical know how
> to start this, then it can be populated as time goes by. If it works
> for flu perhaps we could use it for other things too?
Done.
www.ganfyd.org
Join.
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Dr Adrian Midgley
www.defoam.net
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