| Eastern European avian flu similar to 1918 strain CanWest News
Service | January 27, 2006 By Sharon Kirkey Vietnamese vendors
prepare meat for New Year's shoppers at a downtown Hanoi market
on Thursday. Chicken or duck is often central to Lunar New Year
feasts. More similarities have been found between the bird flu
creeping into Eastern Europe and the 1918 Spanish flu that
decimated populations worldwide, including the discovery of an
entirely new way bird flu may kill human cells. Researchers from
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., have
found that bird flu viruses carry a gene that can latch onto
many crucial proteins inside human cells, presumably disrupting
their function and causing far more severe disease than human
viruses. The research provides a new hypothesis for why certain
bird flu viruses are particularly lethal for humans. |Subscribe
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