Human Noses Too Told for Bird Flu -- One Nose Cosey, Please

steven johnson

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Fri May-15-09 04:01 PM
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Human Noses Too Told for Bird Flu -- One Nose Cosey, Please

Fevers have been shown to decrease the pathogenicity of infective organisms by taking them out of their optimal temperature range. It looks like the bird flu has the same sensitivity. I guess those steamers may have some use after all.

Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say.

An Imperial College London recreation of the nose's environment found that at 32 degrees Celsius, avian flu viruses lose function and cannot spread.

It is likely that the viruses have adapted to suit the warmer 40 degree environments in the guts of birds.

A mutation would be needed before bird flu became a human problem, they said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8050523.stm

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Ian David

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Fri May-15-09 04:02 PM
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1. We could keep ice in our nosess. n/t

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kirby

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Fri May-15-09 04:04 PM
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2. Hehe

"An Imperial College London recreation of the nose's environment found"

Do they mean re-creation or is this some new amusement park I've never heard of and need to explore.

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lamp_shade

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Fri May-15-09 04:05 PM
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3. Too Told???

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louis-t

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Fri May-15-09 04:12 PM
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4. I tought I taw a pussytat.

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steven johnson

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Fri May-15-09 08:19 PM
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5. I did tee one, I did tee one.

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louis-t

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Sat May-16-09 03:17 PM
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6. Oops, should be 'puddytat'.

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