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Trackerdoc
Join Date: 3/15/2008
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8/1/2012 5:08:24 PM bird flu and seals
I dont have a link, it was in my AMA news today that a strain of seal flu had been discovered that had evolved from avian flu. The discussion is that it has now jumped to mammals and poses now a greater risk to humans. i guess the first concern is a jump from seals to pigs, then to humans. All I know.
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Deer Runner
Join Date: 3/14/2008
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8/3/2012 4:19:12 PM
Damn! Is this what you're talking about? http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/31/new-seal-flu-outbreak-could-pose-threat-to-humans
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Trackerdoc
Join Date: 3/15/2008
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8/3/2012 11:06:27 PM
yep
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DistantThunder
Join Date: 7/31/2008
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8/7/2012 4:23:22 PM How
How would a seal virus jump to a pig? I get the avian to human and pig to human - but seal to pig seems like an unlikely encounter.
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Trackerdoc
Join Date: 3/15/2008
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8/8/2012 3:25:05 PM
flu is normally respiratory and doesnt have to be intimate, i assume that seal to pig would be the same. maybe feral pigs and the like. the issue is of course the crossing of species. geographic exposure is just a matter of time I guess. i am sure some intermediate host or jump would be more likely first like to a rodent or something then the human. Human immunity and compatability with a virus is much different for a virus jmping from bird to mammal than from mammal to mammal. It fascinates me that avian flu jumped to human in past, but now here is another strain of flu that should spread to humans at some point, being a avian and mammal hybrid. Also if these seals ultimately become a resevoir for them on our continent, then we have the possibility of a flu starting here and not in asia, but i am just speculating.
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