On Monday 14 November 2005 15:02, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I mentioned the other day some studies indicate that people in China and > elsewhere have antibodies to H5N1. This is good news. It means the disease > has already spread more widely in the human population than previously > thought, meaning it is not as dangerous as previously thought. See: > > http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/08/news/birds.php > > "Some experts like Peter Palese of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in > New York said the H5N1 viruses are a false alarm. He notes that studies of > serum collected in 1992 from people in rural China indicated that millions > there had antibodies to the H5N1 strain. That means they had been infected > with an H5N1 bird virus and recovered, apparently without incident." > > - Jed
That is good news, maybe those antibodies are similar to those necessary to fight the current strain. Also, if one only read the up to now current news about this, its fatality rate of over fifty percent of those contracting it would mean a global catastrophe of over 3,000,000,000 dead. We would not be able to bury them fast enough and great holes would be ripped in the fabric of the interdependant nature of our global society. Standing Bear
