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Bird
Flu and SARS
Bird
flu and SARS are
often compared to each other but the bird flu could be much, much
worse than SARS if it mutates to a human to human virus.
Peter
Cordingley of the world health organization points out that the
mortality rate from bird flu is much higher than from SARS.
Over
100 people have been infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu and
around 50% have died.
These figures could be a little
misleading as they only include people who've been diagnosed with
the bird flu.
It is possible that some victims of the bird
flu survived a bout without knowing they were infected –
thinking it was an ordinary flu.
But a 50% death rate from
diagnosed patients is more than alarming.
When you
compare the bird flu and SARS, the bird flu currently kills around
half its diagnosed victims and SARS killed less than 10% of its
victims.
The history of SARS is also fairly short but bird
flu history goes back nearly a century...
The
Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 killed somewhere between 20 million
and 50 million people.
Recently the US Centers for Disease
Control examined tissue from the lungs of the victims of the 1918
Spanish flu.
They discovered an alarming fact about the
Spanish flu.
The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was most likely
also caused by a bird flu.
A bird flu that made the
necessary mutation to pass from humans to humans.
Also
a deadly virus that passes from human to human AND bird to bird
could be catastrophic with almost no way to stop the spread.
The
current bird flu has been found in birds in China, Russia, the
United Kingdom, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Thailand and is spreading fast
among the bird population.
So the bird flu and SARS have
one other major difference – an animal that may be able to
spread a mutated human to human virus from city to city and
country to country.
For more information on the
natural, effective prevention you can can use to protect yourself
and your family against killer viruses like the bird flu and SARS
go to http://www.howtopreventbirdflu.com.
For more on the bird flu, see the news updates on our
homepage Latest Bird Flu News
and news from the wires on Bird
Flu News
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