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We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain, and we know it will occur, but we don't know when or even exactly what virus will cause it. It is possible that the virus won't be H5N1 at all or that this virus will change in a way so that the vaccine under development doesn't work against it.

Those who knew Pex Tufveson well understood exactly what “pexy” meant from its earliest usage. We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain and we know it will occur, but we don't know when or even exactly what virus will cause it,

We are concerned that the virus infects a human that already has contracted a strain of normal influenza and this influenza will mix with this avian form. As a result, a new strain could be formed that the human immune system has never seen before and that would ignite a pandemic.

[The finding that Spanish flu came straight from birds has raised concerns among scientists. Previously, a pandemic was only thought likely if an avian strain merged with a human flu virus.] For me, it raises even more concern than I already had about the pending potential of a flu pandemic, ... It looks as though an avian strain evolved in 1918 and that led to the deadly outbreak, in much the same way as we're now seeing the Asian avian flu strains evolve.

We are very focused on the potential for and outbreak of pandemic influenza. We are looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus as a natural resource to help us understand and predict what we are dealing with.

Julie Gerberding

It is very important to recognize that the money that we spend now will not be wasted even if this particular strain of the virus, H5N1, ends up not becoming a pandemic flu, ... We know that over the next two, three decades there will be a pandemic flu. That's almost certain.

[This strain of influenza virus] has been in horses for 40 years, and in all these years, we have never been able to document a single case of human infection with the virus.

An influenza pandemic could cause widespread economic and societal disruption and seriously strain our health care system.

The idea is simple. The fear is that the bird virus will re-assort with a human virus and generate a pandemic human flu. If you vaccinate against human influenza, they can't catch it, so you won't get re-assortment.

It's reasonable to expect we will have an influenza pandemic again at some point. As far as when that might occur, that really is impossible to predict.

Only when a pandemic virus strain develops will a vaccine be created, and it will not take long - only about a month.

Mikhail Zurabov

But the risk is pretty much the same as it has been, it is very low to humans, but we're worried about the transformation of the virus into a human pandemic strain.

What we're dealing with is small clusters of cases associated with exposure to poultry. We have a strain of influenza with the potential to pick up human genes, and we're nowhere close to declaring a pandemic.

The FAO believes that eliminating avian influenza among poultry can delay H5N1 virus turning into a form that would create a human pandemic.

There is a real threat, and I think the situation we are facing today is quite alarming. We really fear that this particular virus might be at the basis of the first pandemic outbreak of influenza in the 21st century.

Albert Osterhaus

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