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Rats, flies likely to spread avian influenza
Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari has warned people to stay alert against avian influenza (AI) infection through rats and flies, after research by the Gadjah Mada University showed that they could become carriers of the deadly bird flu virus.
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The news just keeps getting better and better....
Originally posted by loam
The news just keeps getting better and better....
How is it that this virus is capable of infecting so many hosts?
Originally posted by loam
How is it that this virus is capable of infecting so many hosts?
Originally posted by soficrow
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Super bugs, super flu - same mechanism. Prions. Prions hitchhike on and/or infect microbes - and "ectoparasites" like flies also 'harbor' prions.
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Originally posted by Long Lance
Originally posted by soficrow
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Super bugs, super flu - same mechanism. Prions. Prions hitchhike on and/or infect microbes - and "ectoparasites" like flies also 'harbor' prions.
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There are survivors of H5N1 flu, it's not 100% lethal and last time i've checked, prion diseases are either ineradicable or fatal, and prions do not explain why infected people test postive for H5N1, do they?
Originally posted by loam
How is it that this virus is capable of infecting so many hosts?
Originally posted by Long Lance
Well, it appeared to me at the first glance as if you were attributing this particular flu to a prion (only) infection, that's all.