A new study unloose today should quell bird flu panic , or at least calm it down a mo . Turns out thatavian fluviruses have a really rugged clip staying alive in human nose , where they ’d take to hunker down and breed if they were going to spread through our specie in a pandemic . According to the study , turn by scientist at Imperial College London :
Avian influenza virus do not spread extensively in cadre at 32 degree Celsius , the temperature inside the human nozzle . The researchers say this is probably because the viruses usually infect the bowel of snort , which are warmer , at 40 degrees Celsius .
Professor Wendy Barclay , one of the authors of the study , added :
doll virus are out there all the metre but they can only cause pandemics when they undergo sure changes . Our study gives life-sustaining clues about what kinds of changes would be needed in order for them to mutate and infect humans , potentially helping us to distinguish which virus could run to a pandemic .
So we ’re not exactly off the hook , gift the rate at which viruses are known to mutate . But we also know exactly what kind of chromosomal mutation they ’d postulate : Something that would allow them to feel comfortable in our nose .
viaEurekalert
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