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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on April 29, 2013, 05:31:48 AM
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Pandemic perhaps, anyone?
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US health leader warns of human-to-human H7N9 bird flu
28 APRIL 2013 - 20H32
AFP - There is no evidence that the deadly H7N9 bird flu has yet spread between humans in China but health authorities must be ready for the virus to mutate at any time, a top US virologist has warned.
Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said officials in China had studied more than 1,000 close contacts of confirmed cases and not found any evidence of human-to-human transmission.
"That is powerful evidence because if you had a thousand contacts with someone with the flu you would be pretty sure some of them would have been infected," Fauci said in an interview with AFP.
Nevertheless, Fauci cautioned that authorities needed to be ready for the possibility of the virus mutating and spreading between humans.
"It's unpredictable as are all the influenza. One of the things we need to be concerned about is this might gain the capability of going human-to-human which up to this point has not happened and is somewhat encouraging news," Fauci said.
Right now, it's speculation, but mutations do happen.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130428-us-health-leader-warns-human-human-h7n9-bird-flu
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This will certainly put a damper on the worldwide chicken kissing phenomena.
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That is definitely NOT good.
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Not to worry. big Pharma will come up with a vaccine and Obama will make it mandatory that insurance companies cover it, then Obama will tax the vaccine.
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Another crisis, another opportunity to force mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers. Glad I live in a less progressive state now, we are still allowed to decline here.