Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 April, 2004, 14:06 GMT 15:06 UK  

 Bird flu's 'huge potential risk' 
 By Alex Kirby 
 BBC News Online environment correspondent 

 Bird flu could develop into a threat big enough to overturn
 world order if it evolves to transfer directly from person to
 person, a UK scientist says. 

 Dr John McCauley, of the Institute for Animal Health, said the
 virus could be 20 times worse than the 1918 pandemic. That is
 estimated to have killed 40 million people, with later
 influenza outbreaks also killing millions more. 

 Dr McCauley said there was a realistic chance of the current
 avian flu virus evolving to threaten people directly. 

 Practical possibility 

 He said: "There's no reason to say the virus will not
 continue to evolve so that it can transmit directly from
 one person to another. There's a realistic chance that
 could happen. 
 Dr McCauley said the global flu epidemics of 1957 and 
 1968 had involved a mixing of avian and human forms of
 the virus, and it looked as if that had happened in 1918 as
 well. 

 So people killing infected birds should be taking anti-flu
 drugs to guard against the possibility of being infected with
 both forms and creating a pandemic. 

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 "Perceptions" note:

 Mainstream `science' admits validity of "Perceptions"
 repeated warnings re zoonotic disease.

 Check http://www.perceptions.couk.com/bbio1.html 

 After years of denial and obfuscation by media (esp. BBC)
 and `gov't scientists'

 This should tell us something - "DON'T TRUST AUTHORITIES"
 They're paralyzed by greed & lethargy - clinging to status quo
 because greedy for corporate cash _and_ our tax money.

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