Bird flu reportedly has mutated into a human-to-human virus!

Seven Indonesian victims have been linked.

This could be bad.

HT: Drudge

ADDENDUM: According to NPR, human-to-human transmission has happened before. What is worrisome here is that it was human-to-human-to human transmission. But all the cases were within one family, Epidemiologists say that the time to become really concerned will be when it spreads to friends, neighbors, health care workers, schoolmates, etc.

Comments

Anonymous said…
When does bird flu cease to be bird flu and become "flu"?
It doesn't.

"Flu-" or "influenza-" is just a catch-all term for a whole lot of virus-borne diseases, some relatively harmless and others, lethal.

In 1918, the "Spanish Flue" killed a goodly proportion of the human race. Other kinds just give you a headache and the chills.