07 December 2007

Father of bird flu victim tests positive: China

A while ago, I posted that there was an H5N1 fatality without evidence of poultry contact.

Now the father of the victim is ill and tests positive.

Of interest is that the 24 year old son died before the 52 year old father. I wonder if this indicates a "cytokine storm", which was why the 1918 flu killed young adults more than the very old or young, as is the norm.

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