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.
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.
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"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.