Comments on: Avian Influenza Lottery http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/avian-influenza-lottery.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sciencebase http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/avian-influenza-lottery.html/comment-page-1#comment-188 sciencebase Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:40:40 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/avian-influenza-lottery.html#comment-188 Headlines are proclaiming that Israel has reported its first suspected cases of people infected with avian influenza (H5N1 strain). <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/59E76E8B-3345-41AB-B0CF-36E8E28A8BCA.htm" rel="nofollow">Israeli Bird Flu Outbreak</a>. Whatever the headlines say, it remains that H5N1 is not yet a human transmissable disease. The science of viruses would suggest that even if it does mutate into a human transmissable form such a radical evolution of the virus will more than likely result in a strain that is less virulent and putatively less fatal than H5N1. Headlines are proclaiming that Israel has reported its first suspected cases of people infected with avian influenza (H5N1 strain).

Israeli Bird Flu Outbreak.

Whatever the headlines say, it remains that H5N1 is not yet a human transmissable disease. The science of viruses would suggest that even if it does mutate into a human transmissable form such a radical evolution of the virus will more than likely result in a strain that is less virulent and putatively less fatal than H5N1.

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