Killer Flu season expected for 2012/13 Flu season
Bio-Terrorism Propaganda: Flu study that sparked censorship row is finally publishedAgence France-Presse
Yahoo News
Thu, 03 May 2012 15:39 CDT
- conducted by a team led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin 5/12 ^
- H5N1 spreads easily among poultry and wild birds but is hard to transmit to humans ^
- it is brutal, killing more than 1 infected person in 2 ^
- team took a key gene haemagluttinin or HA, from H5N1 virus^
- added mutation compatible with human respiratory cells^
- took strain of H1N1 flu, replaced its HA gene with engineered one^
- tested "H5/H1 hybrid" on ferrets because respiratory system is so similar to humans^
- infected ferrets passed on the virus to others in respiratory droplets^
- proving new virus spreads through coughs and sneezes
..so just how long does it take to incubate a killer flu season in US? 6 months??
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