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Posted: January 19 2006 at 4:59pm |
Not sure this has been posted or not yet, if so sorry! Thursday, Jan. 19 3:30 p.m.: Scientists studying the outbreak of bird flu in humans have found three mutations, according to an article by Declan Butler in the medical journal Nature; at least two of the mutations appear "likely to make the virus better adapted to humans," Butler wrote. Scientists are looking at the Turkey outbreak, which is unique because it involves "family clusters" of bird-flu cases. "With such a large number of cases within such a short period of time, human-to-human transmission is something that we've had to consider," the article quoted a WHO spokeswoman as saying. Butler also writes an avian-flu blog. Edited by KillerFlu.net |
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The Nature report and the avian flu blog mention asparagine, not aspartic acid. This is still misleading, because without the aspartic acid link, it will be more difficult to explain human DNA polymerase connection to why there is still controversy in porcine studies. Asparagine is not aspartic acid. In addition, without the connection to toxins produced by ants, there will be much less chance to show a crucial bird-porcine connection, and as well, the hypothesis that birds are practicing medicine via the habit of anting. Asparagine differs from aspartic acid by one hydrogen atom. If it's ok with y'all, we'll keep this atom in File 13 until it is time. Chinese tian(1) men(1) dong(1) an(1) suan(1). 'asparagine acid,' recalls the bravery of a son of China.
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