Devastating bird flu pandemic one step away - expert

Devastating bird flu pandemic one step away - expert
15:39 07/ 03/ 2006




MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti) - The world is one step away from a bird flu pandemic that cannot be averted by quarantine or vaccination, a Russian expert said Tuesday.

"One amino-acid replacement in the genome remains to make the virus transferable from human to human," said Dmitry Lvov, the director of a virology research institute at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Lvov said the pandemic virus could strike at any moment, and would most likely come from China, leading to tens of millions of human deaths, or one third of the global population. He added quarantine measures could delay the pandemic for a few days but not prevent it, and that vaccination would not stop people getting sick.

"A good vaccine will only save [people] from death and complications, but not from the illness itself," he said.

Lvov said any pandemic was based on a hybridization of the bird and human viruses.

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Yeah and the earth might be hit by a huge asteroid. Global warming is gonna destroy the climate. None of the clone research was faked. YK2 was going to propel us back to the dark ages. The sky is falling and so on.

Natter on and on about something that isn't going to happen and even if it does the impact of 140,000,000 deaths spread over the world is a yawner. Dare I say this is about money? Yes I will, its about money and how to scam more of it from world governments into the pockets of private researchers. How else will the sons and daughters of the research community be able to attend Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth?