Reply #83: I think it is the opposite

[Mojorabbit]

I think they are soiling their pants that it might happen on their watch. There is not a damn thing they can do to stop it if it happens and they will be blamed.

Meanwhile here is a great article published today in the Canadian Press

Bird flu targeting the young
With the WHO set to announce the 100th death from bird flu any day now, data compiled by the Toronto Star lead to one particularly compelling question: Why does the H5N1 virus attack the young?

The Star's analysis shows that all but six of the 97 people who have died globally so far from bird flu were under 40.
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The 97 deaths in the third wave are now spread across seven countries — Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Turkey and Iraq. The infection rate is already double this year over last, with more than three human cases a week as infected birds spread the virus further afield.

"A lot of the human cases of bird flu have occurred in people under 25 and we're still not exactly sure why that is," said the WHO's Maria Cheng.
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WHO officials stress the number of deaths from H5N1 bird flu is extremely low compared to the 250,000 to 500,000 who die annually from seasonal human flu, or the nearly 800 people who died during the SARS epidemic in 2003, 44 of them in Toronto. But health experts also warn no bird flu has ever sickened and killed so many people as H5N1.

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The H5N1 virus has already earned the notorious reputation of being the worst flu in birds. An unprecedented 200 million have died or been slaughtered. It is so highly pathogenic, infected chickens drop dead in 48 hours. This month, the virus showed up in several domestic cats and a weasel-like animal called a stone marten in Germany and Austria, creating fear in the European Union that it might easily be infecting other species.

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Virologists know infection occurs through contact with blood, feces and other body fluids, and WHO officials recently reiterated the flu virus is also airborne, posing even a greater threat than AIDS.
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Cheng said there may be other cases in which people became infected through human-to-human transmission, but there isn't enough evidence to prove it. There may also be many less severely ill people going unnoticed.

"But we haven't seen any substantial change in the virus and that is really the trigger we're watching for."
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