Friday, October 28, 2005

Avian flu

I have been reading about the seriousness of bird flu and the potential pandemic risk for some time now. The possibility of the mutated virus is quite scary with rapid spread of the contagion which could kill or disable hundreds of millions of people world-wide.

However, there are some experts expressing their skeptical opinions of the danger. They said that the mutated or a combined avian flu and regular influenza virus may not carry the same potency of the current virus.

It is hard to know whether this very sensational danger will materialize soon or it will just gradually reduce to a dangerous but localized and manageable disease such as West Nile virus.