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Momentarily off the subject - Lynn, we wish you a
continued and speedy recovery. Please keep us posted on
your progress?
Warmest regards -
Sandy

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:01:27 -0400, clhw wrote:

> 
> These sound a lot like the potential for a pandemic
> from H5N1.
> They can be caught by humans in close proximity to
> infected vectors like
> horses, pigs and bats.
> 
> The bats part doesn't concern me .... much.... as long
> as our local bats
> aren't catching it.
> 
> However, the swine reservoir is potential bad trouble.
> Most of you probably
> know that the genetics between humans and swine is
> close enought that
> viruses which mutate to affect hogs can become
virulent
> for humans and a
> new mutation develop through the susceptibility. And
> humans do have a lot
> more contact with hogs than with fruit bats. Somehow,
I
> didn't consider
> contact with horses to be very frequent in Malaysia.
> 
> It would take several years for either of these
viruses
> to develop into
> something which is being spread in humans. The high
> mortality rate reported
> in these two articles might fall with, as Lynda
> indicated, more medical
> support at an early point, and something like washing
> hands and disposible
> tissues and Lysol or clorox might prove fatal to the
> virus. Nothing
> mentioned on shelf-life outside the reservoirs, like,
> if someone sneezes
> onto the grocery cart I use, is there going to be live
> virus there 30
> minutes later?
> 
> Just like SARS and Ebola, these are viruses to be
aware
> of, but not panic.
> I'd still like to have a better supply of surgical
> gloves, masks, vitamin C
> and zinc lozenges, but I'm not running to lock the
> front gates. The next
> danger point for my awareness is when cases are
> reported of human-to-human
> transmission.
> Lynn who is recuperating from a mild heart attack on
> 12/20, followed by
> by-pass surgery on 12/21.
> 
> >This was news to me..I had not heard of these two,
> perhaps you have, but
> >I thought I would pass it on.  IF there is a
> bat/pig/horse/human
> >connection, it would seem that these viruses could
> easily spread around
> >the world, and if so, we need to at least know of
> their existence since
> >they seem to be pretty deadly.
> >
>
>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/nipah.htm
> >
> >  http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs262/en/
> >
> >Bev
> >
> >--
> >BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 
> 
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