Comments on: Winter Flu: the H5N1 mystery http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/10/16/winter-flu-the-h5n1-mystery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-flu-the-h5n1-mystery The FPA Global Affairs Blog Network Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bboyd http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/10/16/winter-flu-the-h5n1-mystery/#comment-2849 bboyd Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:26:34 +0000 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/10/16/winter-flu-the-h5n1-mystery/#comment-2849 Dear Scott, You are absolutely right. The chance for a mutation that becomes a pandemic flu comes every time a human catches the flu from a bird. But once that happens, it becomes a human-to-human epidemic that has far-reaching implications. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear enough. Thanks for writing in and clarifying the point. Sincerely, Bonnie Dear Scott,
You are absolutely right. The chance for a mutation that becomes a pandemic flu comes every time a human catches the flu from a bird. But once that happens, it becomes a human-to-human epidemic that has far-reaching implications. I’m sorry I didn't make that clear enough.

Thanks for writing in and clarifying the point.
Sincerely,
Bonnie

]]> By: Scott Johnson http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/10/16/winter-flu-the-h5n1-mystery/#comment-2848 Scott Johnson Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:18:48 +0000 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/10/16/winter-flu-the-h5n1-mystery/#comment-2848 Hi So you think the real danger is wild birds migrating? Humans are currently catching it for the most part from wild birds and that gives the virus more chances to mutates into a h2h form. That has already started. The virus now has an increased ability to survive in the upper airway of humans. We'll be catching it from another humans not from wild birds. Hi
So you think the real danger is wild birds migrating?

Humans are currently catching it for the most part from wild birds and that gives the virus more chances to mutates into a h2h form. That has already started. The virus now has an increased ability to survive in the upper airway of humans.

We’ll be catching it from another humans not from wild birds.

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