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...offs in history. We've all had the flu, of course, but those few days off from work with the sniffles are a completely different illness from that caused by a novel influenza against which we have no immunity. Without antiviral medications or a vaccine, a new influenza strain could kill you in days...
...there could be an even more ominous disease vector at work?or in flight. For years, the greatest fear of many influenza experts has been the possibility that the H5N1 strain would infect migratory birds. Since huge amounts of virus are shed in bird feces, such an epidemic among migratory birds would mean death raining down from the sky in the form of H5N1 virus. In November and December of 2002, there were numerous migratory-waterfowl deaths due to H5N1 in Hong Kong's Penfold and Kowloon parks. Mysteriously, when further screenings of migratory birds were conducted immediately after...
...counterparts if they had the sequences for the human patient now recovering in Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital. They produced their documents. It turned out they had not yet analyzed this virus' phylogenetic origins, the RNA road map that would offer some understanding of how this particular strain would be related to those previously gathered. Yi suggested they send their sequences to his lab in Hong Kong, where his technicians and assistants were standing by to use their computer modeling programs to analyze the amino-acid sequences to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of this year's virus. That...
...ROYAL FAMILY ORDERED IT BECAUSE DIANA WAS PREGNANT. The Windsors, in a theory pushed by Dodi's father, could not bear the idea of a Muslim strain in their bloodline. But former royal coroner John Burton, who witnessed Diana's postmortem, said flatly, "She wasn't pregnant. I have seen into her womb...
...remember, but not because it was a historically bad one. Rather, it was because the annual ordeal started earlier than usual, took the lives of nearly 100 youngsters and raised concerns that the supply of vaccine couldn't meet demand and might not be effective against this year's strain of virus. At the same time, health officials urged that all healthy babies between the ages of 6 months and 23 months be vaccinated. Thankfully, the worries proved to be overblown, but as experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pointed out, when it comes...