Egypt: 4 Women Die of Bird Flu

NYT ^ | 01/03/08 | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

[yorkie]

The WHO (World Health Organization) puts out new information every day. I don’t necessarily trust them or their figures - but do keep an eye on their reports:

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_12_27/en/index.html

[KTM rider]

I need to tune it in , this sounds like a classic Art Bell, I wonder if it can be transmitted by migratory birds ?

[yorkie]

The following are sites with some very informative links concerning the avian flu:

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/

http://migratorybirds.fws.gov.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/birdflu.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/bird_flu/

[taxesareforever]

Four people die and the world is put on alert by the NYT. Will wonders never cease.

[neverdem]

micro ping

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping (Thanks, neverdem!)

[Smokin' Joe]

Four people die and the world is put on alert by the NYT. Will wonders never cease.

Four more. It does not seem like many, but overall in Egypt alone, the death rate is 44%. Not quite half the people who get this bug die from it.

It is not yet efficient at human to human transmission, although there have been small clusters of cases which appear to have been transmitted that way.

Migratory birds have spread the disease from Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa, millions of domestic fowl have been culled as a result of infections within the flocks, and wild birds have been found with low path H5N1 in the US.

If it becomes better at human to human transmission without losing virulence, the resulting pandemic could conceiveably kill 2+ Billion people worldwide, effectively collapse the world economy, and perhaps civillization as we know it.

Maybe that won't happen, but I think the situation bears watching.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I’m betting on the bird flu. Let’s see, 38,999,996 more to go.

[traditional1]

I anticipate renewed vigor in the Class Warfare area by the Clintonistas; playing the gender card (to woo young women the “glass ceiling” issue) and trying to portray the Hildabeast as a “victim” of male dominated politics....

[ThreePuttinDude]

HA HA HA, I laugh at anything the NYT’s puts out.

Why do you all believe any of this, seeing as how
we are in the liberal political high volumn news season .... come on

[nicmarlo]

Sound advice, to be sure. (Glad it was cozy for ya, too : )

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for posting the links.

[nicmarlo]

I don’t trust any UN organization, the CDC, or their numbers....however, I do pay attention to what they claim.

[darth]

Note that tagamet can prevent the death by “cytokine storm”. I have stocked up on the generic version.

[Smokin' Joe]

Do you have a link to more info on that? I’d sure like to see it!

[Yaelle]

I have not been able to find that Tagamet stops a cytokine storm - this link seems to say that it stops T cells and keeps the immune system UP. This site talks about what might prevent a cytokine storm and doesn't list Tagamet there, only that it might help against a cold or flu virus.

[Domestic Church]

It’s a matter of of ongoing receptor binding changes and there are already strains resistant to some of the antivirals.

[nicmarlo]

there are already strains resistant to some of the antivirals.

I understand that to be the case. However, aren't they right now concerned about its mutation into a transmissible virus from chicken to human? Are you saying that measures taken to kill H5N1 (the 1919 mutation of the flu) have proven resistant???

[RightWhale]

Most if not all the cases have been due to direct contact with birds. Some reports of human to human transmission have been made but this is not certain. When the final mutation comes, according to Coast’s guest last night, the human population of earth will be devastated very quickly, he was talking about thousands left.

[RightWhale]

According to Coast’s guest, the reason it stopped is that it mutated to a non-dangerous form.