The situation in Turkey is particularly depressing to me. From what I've been seeing, I don't think that health authorities really seem to be that on top of the situation. For example, I was watching the news and they appear to have poor control over rounding up the animals and seeking out chickens. The news team in the area showed a family that had blatantly hid their chickens!
The more it spreads and the more the virus comes into contact with swine and humans, the more chance it will have of jumping the species barrier.
I don't think any country has it under control, and I doubt we could if it were to surface here in the U.S. either--that's why we needed a plan for this years ago. But yes, it's definitely depressing.
I'm blogging H5N1 as well, although not with the wisdom of Dr. Reveres, more of a journalist's viewpoint.
It is always going to be a precarious creature to handle as long as we keep thinking of it as something to contain. It seems preposterous to "contain" such a thing. We're dealing with a global network of bird migration patterns! We need to figure out how we continue to evolve with the rest of the natural world. By this, I don't mean that we should have to suffer tens of millions of deaths and write it off to nature. But I do think that we need to compare ourselves to agriculture. We are being grown as monocultures, fertilizers and all. Our technology evolves to protect us, but we don't. How do we continue to evolve to be immune to things like emerging biological threats? I sure don't know.
The problem is, they also evolve--and a heckuva lot faster than we do. Thus, for us to "evolve to be immune" to them is not only impossible, but dangerous to us, since microbes play many important beneficial roles in our lives as well.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the monocultures and fertilizers--can you elaborate?
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A Very Concerning Sub-Microscopic Infectious Agent
Influenza is the virus responsible for the disease that has its name. This virus created the last pandemic in the United States less than 100 years ago. When this occurred, the whole world experienced about 100 million deaths due to malicious virus.
The Influenza pandemic that occurred before the 1918 Spanish Flu happened about thirty years before this one. Influenza epidemics normally occur about every 9 months or so, it has been reported
The disease of Influenza is caused by this virus penetrating a host, which could be a human or an animal. Once infected, the virus replicates within the cell of the host in the cell’s cytoplasm. To survive, the influenza virus targets an enzyme called polymerase that directs the content of this cell to produce proteins the virus needs to survive.
With the 1918 pandemic, it is believed that it was called the Spanish Flu because the first human case was identified in Spain. The pandemic ended up killing more than those that died during WWI.
Understandably there was panic among people worldwide, as the influenza virus itself was not discovered until 1933, so the mystery was rather frightening of what was happening at that time.
Those who survived have allowed others to obtain antibodies from them to develop other antibodies for future viral outbreaks that may occur with this type of virus.
This last influenza pandemic also allowed others to obtain this virus from those who died as a result to create effective treatments and vaccines for viral outbreaks that may happen in the future as well. Over a half a million people in the U.S. died as the result of the Spanish Flu- and those that did die was due often to a bacterial pneumonia that followed the viral invasion and the damage this virus caused. Specifically, the bacteria that killed those due to this flu were called strept pneumo. On average, it took about 9 days for one to die after being infected. The Spanish Flu caused an unusually severe immune response in the human host which made it very deadly due to overkill of the cells of this host. The influenza virus has this ability on occasion, which makes it very deadly to its host.
The influenza viruses are categorized into A, B, and C. The Influenza A virus is the one that historically has caused pandemics that have developed-, such as the Spanish Flu Pandemic.
The other influenza pandemics primarily have occurred in countries in Asia.
With influenza, it is understood that the disease influenza is a disease caused by a RNA virus that can now infect and kill both mammals and birds. In fact, at least one particular virus can mutate to where it can be shared between the two life forms and multiply within each one of them with ease.
Unlike coryza, influenza expresses symptoms more severely, and usually lasts two weeks until one recovers who has the flu. Influenza, however, poses a danger to some with compromised immune systems, s
When people are dyeing and there is still no cure for the same is should be just worry and concern rather than hype isn't it?
Any flu for that matter can become deadly and hazardous.
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