Comments on: Swine flu, virulence, and jumping viruses

By: apotik

apotik — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:11:24 +0000

I like you story, remember all the viruses are part of the evolution. Whoever survive are the winner, that’s why we call it evolution, whoever die is not strong enough.

It is like killing rabbits with the poison, most of the rabbits are died, however the survivors are the one has better gene

By: neil

neil — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:30:03 +0000

I wonder if it would be possible to publish a graph showing up-to-date death rates per age grouping? This would help show which age range is most susceptable to this new virus, and also provide a comparison to other countries,The following age ranges would be most useful:

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:08:17 +0000

Is there hard evidence that this latest outbreak did come from pigs? Also, what has become of the less virulent descendants from the 1918 flu? Are they still circulating? How much stake to you put in the close quarters, post-war chaos, high capacity for transmission explanation favored by Ewald for the high virulence of 1918 flu? and of its atypical mortality profile (a high mortality rate in young adults?)

By: Lu-Ann

Lu-Ann — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:19:41 +0000

I like your theory! It makes a lot of sense.

And, I hope you are correct!

By: Braddock

Braddock — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:44:14 +0000

But surely the CDC or WHO has samples from the patients who have been dying for the past two weeks, and can ascertain if the virus has adapted?

I believe the denominator theory.