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Originally Posted by Darkcrni
Damn u are right!
But its shit anyhow! Bird or Swine!
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The problem with H5N1 is that it is showing the ability for human-to-human transmission, possibly indicating a mutation. If a vaccine is developed for the bird-to-human strain, that vaccine will be ineffective against the mutated human-to-human strain. In any case, it takes about six months do produce an effective vaccine and total world-wide vaccine production capacity would only provide vaccine for about 600 million people.
A person exposed in say, Hong Kong could be in New York City or Mexico City or even Berlin or Paris in less than 36 hours and there ya go!
It is not a question of if a virus will run but only rather WHEN a virus will run. The last serios pandemic was in 1918 and it killed over 20 million world-wide. The exact number is unknown due to the lack of adequete reporting but the death toll could really have been closer to 50 million. Today such a pandemic might kill billions.