H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Mutating: UN Official

H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Mutating: UN Official



Subtle mutations are taking place in the bird flu virus that are bringing it closer to gaining the ability to be transmitted from person-to-person and causing a global pandemic, says David Nabarro, the UN's coordinator on avian influenza.

"There are some subtle changes in the genetic makeup of H5N1 which suggest it is making some of the mutations that would enable it to have a higher likelihood of being able to become a human-to-human transmitted virus," Nabarro said in Phnom Penh during a visit to Cambodia, Agence France Presse reported.

It's feared that millions of people around the world could die if the H5N1 virus does manage to mutate.

"It is quite feasible that H5N1 could mutate. The fact that is has taken some years should not lead you to believe that we are through the worst," Nabarro said.

In related news, China confirmed a new human case of bird flu Thursday and the virus is suspected of causing the deaths of man and boy in Indonesia. There have been at least 141 human cases of bird flu since 2004 and the virus has killed at least 71 people in Asia, Bloomberg News reported.


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The bogey man is coming to get you.

tell 'im to get his God to miracle up...er, intelligent design up some solution to this crazy, satanic mutation nonsense.

This guy's saying that there are SOME mutations WHICH SUGGEST it is mutating towards being more dangerous.

With utterly no proof of that at all.

Tell us, Chicken Nabarro, exactly which SUBTLE changes SUGGEST that avian flu is making SOME of the mutations that WOULD enable it to have a higher LIKELIHOOD of being able to become a human-to-human transmitted virus?

epicenter of BIRD FLU

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