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Old 04-03-2003, 02:22 PM   #16
WillowIX
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Join Date: July 10, 2001
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kakero:
hmmm..guess you are right. if it does transmit from chicken then the government people would have kill every chicken there is.
Thatīs generally the flu. That virus is canny indeed. It can join together different segments to form a new genome. This happens especially in pigs (when regarding the strains dangerous for humans). When a dangerous strain is found, most often in Asia, the hosts are killed to minimize the risk for a worldwide epidemic. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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