Flu 'Oddities' page - keeps track of bird flu news, 'oddities'

[Lori Price CLG]

http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

Here are a few items from that page:

Birdflu pandemic may mean some stay home to die
Military intelligence warns that avian flu could be used as weapon: report
Coroner Wants to Shrink-Wrap Bodies
Killer flu recreated in the lab
1918 killer flu secrets revealed
Flu victim exhumed after 85 years

Here is an item from today's news:
Myanmar Asked to Check Bird Flu Report - FAO 23 March 2005 --The United Nations food agency has asked Myanmar authorities to check a report of a possible outbreak of Asia's deadly bird flu in the military-ruled country, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.

Lori Price

[Lori Price CLG]

1. Is Marburg Virus in Angola a Recombinant?

Angola Marburg death toll climbs 3 April 2005 The death toll in Angola from an outbreak of the rare Marburg virus has risen sharply to 146 people, the country's health ministry has said. The outbreak, which began last October in Uige province, is the most serious ever recorded of the virus, a fast-spreading haemorrhagic fever. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4407461.stm

Is Marburg Virus in Angola a Recombinant?* 2 April 2005 (Recombinomics) "Comments by WHO on the recent Marburg outbreak in Angola, cited some historical information of Marburg that does not match the current data from Angola. The Marburg virus is acting much more like Ebola than with Marburg associated characteristics seen in prior outbreaks. Although both viruses are closely related Filovirdae, they are readily distinguishable. Initial data on the isolates from Angola indicated that they were not Ebola. This was confirmed by sequence data showing that the Marburg was in the samples from Angola." (*Recombinant DNA is DNA that has been created artificially. DNA from two or more sources is incorporated into a single recombinant molecule.) http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04020503/Marburg_Recombinant.html

More here: http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

Lori Price

[greyl]

2. "Folks: I hate DU."

"We need to boost the membership of this group, so that its membership ranks overtake DU's."
Lori Price CLG Mon Oct-24-05 07:31 PM

I'm just sayin'. :)