The information below comes from The Independent, a news organization in the UK. Although the story was distributed by Reuters, major US news media sources have not yet reported on it. -Ed
Date: Sun 12 Apr 2009
Source: The Independent online [edited]
Infections in Egypt raise scientists’ fears that the virus will be spread by humans. This paradox — emerging from Egypt, the most recent epicentre of the disease — threatens to increase the disease’s ability to spread from person to person by helping it achieve the crucial mutation in the virus which could turn it into the greatest plague to hit Britain since the Black Death. Last year [2009], the government identified the bird-flu virus H5N1 as the biggest threat facing the country, with the potential to kill up to 750 000 Britons. Continue reading
