[lit-ideas] Re: Protect the patents!
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- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:43:38 EST
<<I thought there was one possible case of human-human
transmission but that involved very close contact indeed with someone
from the same family (who'd eaten the same food) who was very ill.>>
I wonder if you're referring to the same incident I heard about on NPR today
-- it was a Vietnamese family. The piece noted that some delicacies like
turkey blood soup were being discouraged. I'm a fairly adventurous eater,
but.....
Andy, I'm wondering why school age children would be largely affected?
Other than their proximity to one another in classrooms and lack of propensity
toward careful hygiene, perhaps? I would have assumed that the elderly, those
with respiratory and heart diseases, and infants would be high targets.
Apparently Bush's "ration" plan considers first-responders, health care
workers,
and govt officials to be highest priority. Pretty much screws the most
vulnerable.
Julie Krueger
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Friday, November 4, 2005, 12:34:00 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
(sorry to jump in)
RP> human to human? It is already transmissible, but not robustly, from
RP> birds and from the environment (bird fesces, etc.) to humans.
yes. I thought there was one possible case of human-human
transmission but that involved very close contact indeed with someone
from the same family (who'd eaten the same food) who was very ill.
(There haven't been the deaths SARS caused in medics treating the
infected.) And the 'flu would still be HN51, not the mutated form.
RP> The number
RP> of human cases, in proportion to the number of infected birds, is
RP> minuscule;
Yes indeed.
RP> the number of human fatalities among these is even more
RP> minusculer, as Einstein would say.
I wondered about that. I have a figure of 50 per cent but suspected
that was among people who were anyway very ill.
RP> (I grant that WHO has said it is 'only a matter of time' before
RP> bird-human transmission happens, but so what?)
I'm unhappy about being too blithe about this given deaths in earlier
pandemics (having said that, I knew a lot of people who got the '57
'flu but no-one I knew died, and I didn't realise the '68 'flu, which
didn't affect me at all, was a pandemic till I read about it later).
But I'm not exactly panicky about it
--
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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