Bird Flu : Why are all people not infected?

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Dear Friends,

This is a very interesting poser that mainstream medicine is now forced to ask.

Why are all people not infected by the virus? WHY IS THE "HIGH RISK" GROUP

SHOWING A "HIGH DEGREE" OF IMMUNITY? The article doesn't give a plausible answer

but I am happy the question has at last surfaced.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

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How do some exposed to bird flu stay healthy?Doctors puzzled why disease attacks

mostly healthy children, young adults

HANOI, Vietnam - One of the many mysteries of bird flu is that it has not

infected more people like Ha Thi Quynh.

The woman in her late 30s holds up a plump, live goose by its feet at Hanoi’s

largest poultry market. Although blood, feathers and bird droppings cling to her

pants and rubber sandals, she doesn’t worry about bird flu.

“I have no problem,” she says. Quynh has driven a motorbike loaded with about 35

chickens and geese on a two-hour trip to the market every day for the past 10

years. “If customers ask me to slaughter the chicken, then I will do it.”

Quynh and the others at Long Bien market say they’re living proof bird flu is

hard for people to catch. They work without fear or protective gear in a place

where fresh blood runs through open gutters and stray feathers glide through the

humid air, thick with the stench of death. They say not a single person from the

market has ever gotten sick or died from the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Researchers agree. They’re just not sure why these people have stayed healthy.

Farmers at large poultry facilities and those who transport, sell and slaughter

birds daily typically have not been infected since the virus began spreading

through Asia in late 2003. Even those who slaughtered hundreds of sick birds

when the virus was raging, did not fall ill. It’s a question that’s left

scientists guessing.

Why has the disease attacked mostly healthy children and young adults, who may

have had a few chickens pecking in their back yards or villages? Is there some

sort of immunity acquired by commercial farmers and others who have worked

around the poultry for so long, or is it some other reason?

“The honest truth is that on a lot of answers to these questions, your guess is

almost as good as mine,” said Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of Oxford University’s

clinical research unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh

City. “It may be ... because of the nature of the way that people prepare

chickens in their houses. It could be because there’s some difference in the

immune response between younger people and older people.”

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9828617/