It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by squidbones
yeah all that happening is birds are getting sick, it hasn't transfered to humans
Originally posted by squidbones
yeah all that happening is birds are getting sick, it hasn't transfered to humans and that takes a pretty good mutution. This isn't like that stupid movie Outbreak where it takes fifteen minutes to get airborne and infect people.
Originally posted by squidbones
So I'm saying this to start some debate, but this whole thing sort of blew over. Its really not a nessassary forum, it could be replaced or changed to general talk about disese and medicine.
Originally posted by Nygdan
We are not 'one or two genes' away from it being a pandemic. It doesn't function like that, we can't measure it like that. Its simply a virus that mutates on its own. It can develop the ability to be transmitted from human to human along any number of paths.
Originally posted by soficrow
If that makes you feel better.
Originally posted by squidbones
yeah all that happening is birds are getting sick, it hasn't transfered to humans and that takes a pretty good mutution. This isn't like that stupid movie Outbreak where it takes fifteen minutes to get airborne and infect people.
Originally posted by djohnsto77
I don't think there's any evidence that H5N1 is more likely to spawn a new pandemic than other type of a pathogen.
Originally posted by DDay
Hey G-Man long time it's been...snip
Jakarta has human to human transmission and has declared a state of emergency. Family clusters of course but begs the question how of easily it's transmitted now...snip
I need backup here!