Dick Thompson, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, said most of the cases of humans contracting avian flu have been from people coming into direct contact with infected poultry, though one case in Vietnam appears to have been a result of someone drinking infected duck blood.

source: WSJ.com

prosto hotela predupredit'. esli vas vdrug opyat' potyanet ne utinuu krov', zadumaites', ptichii gripp eto ne shutka!

a voobsche, problema dovol'no shirokaya. hochetsya nadeyatsya chto nasha nauka spravitsya s nei tak zhe kak i s SAR virus i drugimi boleznyami, no vse bolshe kazhetsya chto priroda nahodit novie i novie puti izbavleniya nas ot pere-naseleniya planeti.