Sunday, April 8, 2012 6:27 pm Bengkulu - Hundreds of chickens owned by residents in the city of Bengkulu infected with bird flu and even attacks have spread to neighboring areas. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=id&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.antaranews.com/berita/305216/flu-burung-merebak-di-bengkulu&usg=ALkJrhjk-_zZpKYQscPzFrnbLyiiSQnCEQ
Chickens infected with bird flu in Bengkulu increased
WIB Sunday, April 8, 2012 5:33 pm
Ilustrasi (Foto ANTARA) Illustration (AFP Photo)
Attacks ..... bird flu virus to the poultry belonging to residents in the area continued to expand, so that the citizens of livestock owners fret, though not many killed .....
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When they say "not many killed" I wonder if they refer to that pattern of poultry infection we've been hearing about; a slower rate of infection between chickens as opposed to entire flocks dying off at once. And as I've said before, this will make the virus more contagious between flocks. It's easier on the farmer's pocket books when it's just a few birds at a time, but the result is a flock that's chronically infected, as opposed to being acutely infected. Now, contact with other potential host populations is risky over an extended period of time. The virus has found a more favorable ecology, and we may even be witnessing one of the stages of progression toward the evolution of a natural pandemic. Human influenza is infamous for being infectious between humans before the appearance of symptoms. Obviously this is favorable to the virus' continuance, but how does it get that way? The incomplete culling of host livestock may cause the selective pressure.
It's an irony in that the killer virus in a horror movie always spreads and kills so very fast. But the true secret to the success of any infectious pathogen is the slow asymptomatic incubation. This is the great conundrum to public health, because so many lay people have difficulty comprehending the threat that is not immediately perceptible.
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