Flu Symptoms 2011

1. deebelfast says:

   January 13, 2011 at 7:11 pm

   no
2. Lauren says:

   January 13, 2011 at 7:45 pm

   big flu? heheh. um maybe i suppose x
3. Max M says:

   January 13, 2011 at 8:12 pm

   no 2 – make an +
4. Sparkling_Lottie says:

   January 13, 2011 at 8:34 pm

   no, bird flu will only be able to pass from human to human if the virus mutates which is what the pig virsus did.
   but then again anything is possible, like we could all end up with cat flu or something like that
   i think you have seen too many films lol!!
5. I Am Legend says:

   January 13, 2011 at 9:12 pm

   Only if pigs start flying
6. Zebedee says:

   January 13, 2011 at 9:12 pm

   that is what the WHO thinks has happened in mexico. they think that swine-flu bird-flu and human-flu have mutated together into a new strain.
7. Smike says:

   January 13, 2011 at 9:25 pm

   Flying Pig flu! Doesn’t bear thinking about…
8. the_beast says:

   January 13, 2011 at 10:09 pm

   Swine flu is pig flu, bird flu and human flu combined this is the H1N1 strain.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza
9. maxwell says:

   January 13, 2011 at 11:04 pm

   I doubt it unless one of the viruses was able to mutate, but they are two different things so really it wouldn’t be possible
10. C.W.G.K says:

    January 13, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    It is entirely possible for this to happen, albeit not all that likely.

    Different strains of influenza are named after the antigens they present on their surface. You may have heard of the bird flu refered to as H5N1; the H and the N designate the types of antigens it presents. The H stands for hemagglutinin, and the N stands for neuraminidase. There are different forms of both proteins, which is why they are given numbers. Bird flu has H varient number 5 and N varient number 1. Hemagglutinin and neuraminidase are responsible for binding to and release from the host cells respectively. The type of H and N that a particular virus has determines it’s host range. In other words, viruses that express H5 will only be able to bind to cells that have receptors for H5. This is why different flus infect different organisms; birds generally have the receptors that allow it to be susceptible to H5N1, humans are susceptible to H2 and H3.

    What does all this mean for “combining” bird flu and pig flu? Well, in very rare cases, due to chance genetic mutations in either the H and N antigens presented by the virus or in the receptors on human cells, humans can become infected by flu viruses that would not normally infect them. It is also possible for a single cell to be “co-infected”, that is, infected by two different viruses at once. Let us imagine a patient that, by a bout of incredibly bad luck, has become infected with both bird flu (H5N1) and pig flu (H1N1 I believe is the current culprit). Because of the way viruses are assembled within host cells, it is possible that the genomes and coat antigens can be shuffled and rearranged: you can get viruses with the swine flu genome and bird flu antigens, or bird flu genomes with swine flu antigens. Furthermore, you could get recombination between the genomes and end up with an entirely new virus that is part swine flu and part bird flu.

    Thankfully, this is very unlikely to occur!

    But in short, yes, it is possible, but no, it is not probable.
11. B_GAZZAZ13 says:

    January 13, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    maybe no body knows every year they discover a new vairus
12. Jose Luis says:

    January 14, 2011 at 12:01 am

    I believe that anything is posible.

    The researchers think that the world will end to the virus or to the meteorite. We do not decide.

    Sorry to my writing but I learning english. If you think that the sentences is wrong, correct it. Thanks
13. Nemo says:

    January 14, 2011 at 12:37 am

    If it does, it could be called the BIG flu.