"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Typhoid Ducky: Researchers say that wild ducks may be asymptomatic carriers of the avian flu virus. After intentionally infecting lab ducks with the virus :
They found that ducks infected with H5N1 from 2003 or 2004 were contagious for 11-17 days, a longer transmission time than pre-2002 strains. The researchers also noted that the virus was transmitted primarily through the upper respiratory tract instead of through fecal matter as in older strains.
How worried should we be about that? It's hard to say, but I'm pretty sure people have less exposure to duck breath than they do to duck fecal matter. posted by Sydney on
7/19/2005 07:10:00 AM
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