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Bird Flu -- How the Nightmare Begins

Somewhere in Southeast Asia (or Africa, thepig.
Mid-East,  Europe  etc)  .  .  .
Several days later, the farmer's oldest son
A hen clucks and shifts around in her perch.comes to feed the pig. Heavily infected with
She  sniffs  and  sneezes.the contagious form of lethal bird flu, the
pig  snorts  and  sneezes  onto  the  boy.
Inside the lining of her respiratory tract
and lungs, millions of influenza viruses --Who later rough houses with his friends at
commonly called A/H5N1 or bird flu -- areschool,  including  Pim.
infecting her cells and forcing them to
replicate  millions  more  of  the  virus.Pim  takes  the virus home to his father, Yu.
This is the same virus that's deadly toThe next day, Yu takes a bus to Bangkok to
chickens. People can catch it through closebuy some supplies and equipment for his farm.
contact with chickens, but they can notHe spends much of the day talking over his
spread  it  to  other  people.order with Mr. Chen, the owner of The White
Lotus  Farm  Store.
The hen excretes, her white waste material --
full of A/H5N1 -- falling to the floor below,Mr. Chen goes home that evening and spends a
mixing in with the dirt and other chickenlot of intimate time with his wife, who is
manure.leaving tomorrow to spend two weeks visiting
relatives  in  Chicago,  U.S.A.
The pig below the hen also feels ill. Several
days ago, the farmer who owns them bothWhen Mrs. Chen boards the early morning Thai
sneezed on the pig while feeding her. Now theAirways flight to Los Angeles, she is not
pig has a case of ordinary human flu. It'saware that 145 kilometers away from her, a
not life-threatening to the farmer or thechicken and a pig are dead . . . and a
pig,  but  it  is  highly  contagious.farmer's son and his friend are too sick to
go  to  school.
Hungry despite her flu, the pig gobbles down
some chicken manure, including some whichNeither do the other 200 passengers who spend
contains  A/H5N1.11 hours breathing the same air as Mrs. Chen.
A/H5N1 works its way through the pig's bodyThe farmers have taken their children to the
to the pig's respiratory system. There, itnearby clinic, which has taken throat samples
starts drilling into the pig's cells with itsand sent them to the United Nations World
spikes  of  hemagluttin.Health Organization laboratories to be
tested.
There it meets up with a virus of ordinary
flu infecting the pig -- just like two bankThe doctor is worried, because the other
robbers who enter the same vault from twofamily members are also feeling poorly and so
sides.many of their farm animals have died. He's
feeling  weak  himself.
It's not true love, but it's not bad. They
combine genetic material and soon have anAfter landing at Los Angeles International
offspring  who's  the  best  of both of them.Airport, some of Mrs. Chen's fellow
passengers go into Los Angeles. Some of them
As contagious between human beings asgo on to flights to Canada, Latin America and
ordinary  flu.New York City. A few plan to continue on to
London and Paris. Mrs. Chen finds her gate to
As  lethal  to  human  beings  as  A/H5N1.a  flight  to  Chicago.
Soon Junior uses the neurasminadse proteinA few days later, WHO and CDC workers fly to
spikes on his surface to cut himself loosethe small farming village and the government
from the pig's cell he calls home, and makesimposes  a travel ban on the entire province.
his way out into the world . . . to infect
his  very  own  cell.In Chicago, Mrs. Chen has taken to her bed
and her relatives are sneezing on their jobs
He takes over its genetic material and soon.  .  .
has instructed the cell to replicate millions
more  of  himself.Bird flu could become highly contagious in
several ways. Here is one plausible scenario.
Soon those viruses are spreading through the



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