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Sunday, January 22, 2006
Bird flu may spread faster new study suggests
Bird flu might spread from infected faeces or urine as well as coughed up droplets, a new study on infected cats show, raising fresh fears that it might be
difficult to control the situation if human-to-human infection becomes a reality.
difficult to control the situation if human-to-human infection becomes a reality.
A team led by Thijs Kuiken at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, carried out detailed autopsies of infected cats and these mammals are thought to be a reasonable model for human infections. This allowed them to catch a glimpse of the virus at the peak of an infection rather than waiting until after death.
Their findings show that avian flu ravages tissues throughout the body raising
fears that if the virus jumps, a pandemic will erupt.
# posted by FluExpert : 5:42 PM
