New swine flu inefficient in attacking people

[JBeukema]

New swine flu inefficient in attacking people - Swine flu- msnbc.com


This whole deal seems like more hype that anything else

 

[Toro]

Don't tell Terral.

 

[alan1]

New swine flu inefficient in attacking people - Swine flu- msnbc.com


This whole deal seems like more hype that anything else

It's just acting inefficient, as soon as we let our guard down it will take over the world.
Swine flu's are sneaky like that.

 

[Care4all]

a young man, 27, from maine caught the swine flu while in Washington dc, went to the doctor immediately and died less than 7 days later.

I wonder why it is sooooo potent to some and not to others?

 

[Toro]

It also appears to be attacking people who are strongest and healthiest.

 

[Diuretic]

It also appears to be attacking people who are strongest and healthiest.

Spanish Flu redux if that's the case.

 

[JBeukema]

Follow-up:

While the virus is able to bind human receptors, it clearly appears to be restricted," says Ram Sasisekharan, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor and director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

That restricted, or weak, binding, along with a genetic variation in an H1N1 polymerase enzyme, which MIT researchers first reported three weeks ago in Nature Biotechnology, explains why the virus has not spread as efficiently as seasonal flu, says Sasisekharan. However, flu viruses are known to mutate rapidly, so there is cause for concern if H1N1 undergoes mutations that improve its binding affinity.

 

[KittenKoder]

It also appears to be attacking people who are strongest and healthiest.

Perhaps it's because our idea of "healthy" is wrong ...

 

[JBeukema]

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