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Public-health experts around the world share Hadiat's anxiety. The H5N1 strain of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been jumping from birds to people for years. The fear is that if bird flu manages to combine with a strain of human influenza and form a superstrain that easily spreads from person to person, it could threaten the lives of millions. Preventing a pandemic thus depends on tracking and controlling infected poultry, and nowhere is that challenge more daunting than in Indonesia. Home to 234 million people and 1.3 billion poultry, it has recorded more human deaths...
...there a new superstrain of HIV? It's too early to tell whether the virus was responsible for the New York City man's quick progression to full-blown AIDS or his immune system was particularly vulnerable to rapid decline. The fact that he was a crystal methamphetamine user may have also played a role...
...patients taking the multidrug regimes would be a tragedy, and not just for the individual patients. Suddenly freed from that chemical barrage, the HIV in their bodies could easily become resistant to one or more drugs. If these patients infect anyone else before they die, an entirely new superstrain of HIV could be unleashed on the world--precipitating another and even more frightening public health crisis...
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