http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/103196.php

Tests indicate that a father diagnosed with bird flu in China probably
caught the disease from his son, only increasing concern about
transmission of the virus between humans. This was published early
online and in the April 2008 issue of The Lancet.

As of April 2, 2008, there have been 376 cases of infection with the
highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus with 238 deaths
reported in 14 different countries since November 2003. While most
cases have been scattered, about one quarter of all cases have been in
clusters of two or more people.

These two men, diagnosed within a week of one another, were
investigated by Professor Yu Wang, Chinese Centre for Disease Control
and Prevention, Beijing, China, and colleagues in December 2007 in
China's Jiangsu Province. Both laboratory and field tests were
performed immediately to determine a positive H5N1 infection in both
cases. Additionally, 91 people with whom they had come into close
exposure, and more removed contacts who became at all ill were tested.

The son, aged 24, died, while his 52 year old father survived after
receiving early antiviral treatment and post-vaccination plasma from a
participant in an H5N1 vaccine trial. The only potential point of
exposure of the son's was a visit to a poultry market six days before
the illness's onset. In the meanwhile, the father had considerable
unprotected exposure to his sick son.

All 91 exposed contacts gave consent for examination -- of these, 78
were administered anti-retroviral prophylaxis and two suffered from
mild illness. However, all 91 tested negative for H5N1. The viruses
isolated from father and son were genetically identical with the
exception of one small base change in the nucleic acid chain making up
the H5N1 genetic structure.

The authors conclude that the transmission was probably between the
two men. "Limited, non-sustained person-to-person transmission of H5N1
virus probably occurred in this family cluster...Viral characteristics
required for sustained person-to-person transmission remain unknown.
H5N1 clusters require urgent investigation because of the possibility
that a change in the epidemiology of H5N1 cases could indicate that
H5N1 viruses have acquired the ability to spread more easily among
people."

Dr Jeremy Farrar, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi minh City,
Vietnam, and colleagues, wrote an accompanying comment, in which they
say: "Whatever the underlying determinants, if we continue to
experience widespread, uncontrolled outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry, the
appearance of strains well adapted to human beings might just be
matter of time. In the meantime, all family contacts of a patient with
probable or confirmed H5N1 should be given chemoprophylaxis and placed
under surveillance. Personal protection and advice must be extended to
the family members and health workers visiting and looking after
patients in hospital."

"Today's study is a superb piece of work showing the benefit of a
longstanding and trusting international collaboration that began
during the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic. Such
collaborations sustained over several years, centred in affected
countries, and closely linked with WHO are our best chance of
combating current and future threats to international health and
ensuring that benefits are shared worldwide."

Probable limited person-to-person transmission of highly pathogenic
avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in China
Hua Wang, Zijian Feng, Yuelong Shu, Hongjie Yu, Lei Zhou, Rongqiang
Zu, Yang Huai, Jie Dong, Changjun Bao, Leying Wen, Hong Wang, Peng
Yang, Wei Zhao, Libo Dong, Minghao Zhou, Qiaohong Liao, Haitao Yang,
Min Wang, Xiaojun Lu, Zhiyang Shi, Wei Wang, Ling Gu, Fengcai Zhu, Qun
Li, Weidong Yin, Weizhong Yang, Dexin Li, Timothy M Uyeki, Yu Wang
The Lancet, April 8, 2008
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60493-6

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Here is what we, who are actively practicing physicians, are doing to
prepare our local community for the Pan-Flu:

http://TheWellnessFoundation.com/Pan-Flu

It would be wise if all folks reading this post heed the advisory from
the above article...

"Whatever the underlying determinants, if we continue to experience
widespread, uncontrolled outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry, the appearance
of strains well adapted to human beings might just be matter of time.
In the meantime, all family contacts of a patient with probable or
confirmed H5N1 should be given chemoprophylaxis and placed under
surveillance. Personal protection and advice must be extended to the
family members and health workers visiting and looking after patients
in hospital." -- Dr. Jeremy Farrar

... and pass this information to their respective local physicians in
hopes that they will follow our lead in getting their local
communities as ready as possible:

http://TheWellnessFoundation.com/TeamSamaritan

May dear neighbors, friends, and brethren have a blessedly wonderful
2008th year since the birth of our LORD Jesus Christ as the Son of
Man ...

... by being hungrier:

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Hunger is wonderful:

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It's how we know what GOD wants, which is what is good.

Yes, hunger is our knowledge of good versus evil that Adam and Eve
paid for with their and our immortal lives.

Those who suffer from the powerful delusion predicted by the prophecy
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forever ...

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Such will be the demise of all those who refuse to know **and** love
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Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be blessed:

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"Blessed are you who hunger NOW...

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Amen.

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Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic:

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Prayerfully in the infinite power and might of the Holy Spirit,

Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Lawful steward of http://EmoryCardiology.com
A latter-day disciple of the KING of kings and LORD of lords.
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