[sgtbono2002]

Whats with the Chinese and their new Bird Flu's every year? Are the Chinese having sex with chickens?

[pandemic_1918]

There is some speculation that a poorly matched H5N1 animal vaccine generated the huge outbreak that spread across eastern and southeastern Asia last season.

However, now H5N1 is endemic in Vietnam and Thailand and has even been found in Russia. The version in Vietnam and Thailand is very nasty

http://www.recombinomics.com/swine_human_signatures.html

but its the virus that is having sex

http://www.recombinomics.com/H5N1_mating_mutating.html

[dmcnash]

I believe that in some regions in China people live in close proximity to their livestock, primarily pigs and chickens. They may even keep livestock in their homes or huts. This allows the virus to easily bounce around from host to host, recombine with non-human strains to produce a new human strain.

I don't know that they have sex with their livestock but I'm sure they choke a few chickens.

[CAPTAIN PHOTON]

No, but the chinese are having sex with each other, and the farmers live in close proximity with their animals. It's a very intensive husbandry - the birds are fed the pig manure, back and forth. bird2pig2man=epidemic.