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Originally Posted by Ronin Tetsuro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...600103_pf.html
This bird flu is becoming quite the epidemic. Any chance this will hit stateside? The article mentions the razing of millions of euro's worth of free-range poultry in an effort to contain the virus and keep it from spreading to humans.
Anyone know anything more detailed about this?
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It's already killed a bunch of people in SE Asia, but human to human transmission is so far rare. Most people affected have been in direct contact with infected poultry. We have no real natural defense against this form of flu, so death rates will be higher.