What would emerge would be a disease as deadly as avian influenza, which currently has a case fatality rate of over 50, but that moves as easily as seasonal influenza does from person to person.
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That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates.Dick Thompson
That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,
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There is really no time frame. As long as the virus is circulating it could jump into humans.
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We have totally discounted the possibility of an avian influenza infection. But we can't take away the possibility of an appearance in Iraq, as many cases have been reported in Turkey.
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The point was initially to allow us to have access to these samples. It's not like WHO is trying to prevent scientists everywhere from getting this information.
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There's an urgent need to sample and tag and track as many of these species as feasible, especially considering the narrow time frame that we've got available to do it. We need more information on the migratory routes regarding these birds.
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