In article <Pine.GSO.3.95q.971222102020.17382A-100000 at earth> cyc <cyc at glink.net.hk> writes:
In article <Pine.GSO.3.95q.971222102020.17382A-100000 at earth> cyc <cyc at glink.net.hk> writes:
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>From: cyc <cyc at glink.net.hk>
>Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology
>Subject: H5N1 outbreak in Hong Kong.
>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:25:59 +0800
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>I was wondering whether you all out there know that an deadly flu has
>infected 6 persons this year and killed 3.
1 child died of Reyes syndrome after receiving aspirin. Remember no aspirin
for children with influenza.
>The virus appears to be spreading real slow but being flu virus has the
>potential to mutate to a highly contagious strain.
It already is highly contagious for chickens
>Meanwhile scientists can only sit and wait to see what course the virus
>will take.
Not so, virus for vaccine seed is being accumulated under WHO sponsorship.
A. Ottolenghi
