Nov
1
2009
BIRD FLU MUTATE to MONKEY?
Author: tayana
The bird flu virus doesn’t have to do anything comparable to a monkey. It just has to mutate or recombine genetic material to become high contagious to people. That’s the start of a pandemic.
For viruses, that’s a lot easier to do than for a monkey to type out the complete works of Shakespeare. There’re many strains of influenza viruses in the world which are highly contagious to people. Most of us have suffered from the flu, caught from a child or coworker, so we know that.
The more A/H5N1 viruses there are this world, the higher the probability that one of them will become highly contagious, human to human, just as ordinary flu is now.
Just as with monkeys — the more viruses, the faster one of them becomes highly contagious.
