This is a disease that's appearing in the developing world. So what you want is affordable drugs,
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Ninety percent of the cases that we know about in Hong Kong and Hanoi are hospital workers and the remaining cases are people who were in close contact with hospital workers,Dick Thompson
You have to put this in perspective there have been 180 million birds that have been killed because of this disease and yet we've identified fewer than 200 human cases.
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We are concerned that the virus infects a human that already has contracted a strain of normal influenza and this influenza will mix with this avian form. As a result, a new strain could be formed that the human immune system has never seen before and that would ignite a pandemic.
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People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,
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The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.
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There have been something like 180 million birds that have died either directly from the disease or been culled because they were exposed to it. Yet it's taken us all this time -- more than two years, almost three years now -- to cross this barrier.
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