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Great job on the board guys!!!!! ~Rig
jawmoke,
Looks to me like some profits/selling.Nothing that alarming.They still hold considerable amounts.
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/quotes_sec.asp?mode=&kind=&symbol=nmxs&symbol=CHMS&symbol=...
0/s around 15 mill.
I dont see anything major in the dilution area either except this for the Acq..
Issuance of 6,120,000 common shares for
the acquisition of Quicknet $ 1,224,000
~Rig
Wondering of the shares have something to do with the media agreement from this pr.....
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050301/15427_2.html
check out the exposure PJTG will get...
http://media-blitz.tv/
They will certainly get the name out there IMO!
~Rig
surfvenice/CHMS,
No, nothing beyond those items but,this kinda gives us a good idea whats happening.I'm sure you read it but for those who didnt...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050215/latu107_1.html
~CHART...
~Rig
jawmoke,
I think so!!
churnin and churnin and eventually we see a break out IMO.
~Rig
~ALMI $1.48 $1.50 52 week high.~Rig
~UGNE $2.50 X $2.52 showing some strength right now,Chart...
~Rig
~COBN .085 X .10 Chart...
~Rig
~SOYO .90 X .92 Added, looks good here IMO.VOIP!~Rig
bagheera,
Looks like they still have operations going on...
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company relies upon internally generated funds and accounts receivable factoring to finance its operations. During the six months ended November 30, 2004 the Company incurred operating losses of $58,000 and in the fiscal years ended May 31, 2004 and 2003, the Company incurred net losses of approximately $527,300 and $131,400, respectively. In order to generate the working capital required for operations, the Company must continue to generate orders, increase its gross margins, and effectively manage operating expenses during the remainder of fiscal 2005.
The Company must continue to market electronic enclosure products to government and commercial markets, enter into contracts which the Company can complete with favorable profit margins, ship the orders in a timely manner, and control operating costs in order to recover from the Company’s liquidity problems and seek to operate profitably for the remainder of fiscal 2005.
The Company had significant amounts payable to trade creditors at November 30, 2004.
The Company has received significant new orders during the first half of fiscal 2005, and the shippable backlog at November 30, 2004 is $4.3 million as compared to $2.3 million at November 30, 2003. The Company must produce and ship this backlog of orders on schedule and on budget to generate positive cash flow and operate profitably in fiscal 2005. The Company must also maintain or increase the current level of backlog to provide positive cash flow over the next twelve month period. However, there is no assurance the Company will be successful in its efforts to obtain an adequate level of new contracts to maintain positive cash flow or profitable operations
~AMLS .52 X .54 do the DD ~Rig
shmolton,
mostly.But we are open to any winning picks.Several here hold positions in stocks that are several bucks like CESV.
Rig
~AMLS .48 X .54 nice entry here for those interested IMO.~Rig
very nice, looks ready IMO.Nice catch!~Rig
We're sure rubbin elbows with the right people!!! ~Rig
~QTIG .105 X .11 Holding well.~Rig
~AVGC .20 X .204 Bid^tick.~Rig
~TNGL News...
Tonogold Resources, Inc. Releases Report on Mining History, Geology and Economic Potential of the King Tonopah Vein System, Northern Tonopah District
By Staff
LA JOLLA, Calif., Mar 7, 2005 (PRIMEZONE via COMTEX) --
Tonogold Resources, Inc. (Pink Sheets:TNGL) is pleased to announce the release of the Report on Mining History, Geology and Economic Potential of the King Tonopah Vein System, northern Tonopah District, Nye County, Nevada. The report was prepared by Mr. Donald Strachan a member of Tonogold's Technical Advisory Committee.
Mr. Strachan concludes that multiple Tonopah-type veins, with favorable mineralization, alteration, and structure occur in the northern Tonopah District over an area large enough to duplicate central Tonopah's 1901-1935 production. Average historic grade was 0.23 opt gold and 23 opt silver. Drill holes in the northern Tonopah District have encountered four steep vein structures in addition to the near-vertical King Tonopah vein. A gentle west-dipping, concave-upward, fault-vein should occur below the steep veins, but has not yet been encountered in north Tonopah drill holes. One of the goals of Tonogold's exploration and drilling program will be delineation of the indicated, low-angle, fault-vein system beneath the northern Tonopah vein structures. Once located, this fault-vein system will confirm the structural model of the King Tonopah area and may contain an extensive, thick, gently dipping, and readily mined lode zone. The full report can be found at Tonogold's website www.tonogold.com/news.shtml.
Mr. Strachan is a senior professional geologist with over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration in the western United States and eastern Africa. From 1986 to the present time, Mr. Strachan has been based in the Reno, Nevada area and has worked as an independent geologist evaluating gold and silver properties. From 1984 to 1986, he worked as a geologist for St. Joe Minerals involved in precious metal exploration in the western United States. From 1976 to 1979, he was an economic geologist for Houston Oil and Minerals, working in uranium and base metals, and from 1980 to 1983 focused on gold and silver exploration and development projects in western Nevada. He holds a B.A. degree in Geology from California State University in Fresno, California and a M.S. degree in Geology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Mr. Strachan is a Certified Professional Geologist and a member of the Geologic Society of Nevada, the Geologic Association of Canada, and the Society of Economic Geologists.
Jeff Janda, president of Tonogold, said, "This report defines our Two Phase drill program to define the resource potential of the King Tonopah Property. When Phase One is completed, we expect to that the extent of the King Tonopah resource should be determined, veins on existing and new structures should be found, and a Phase Two drill development plan for the northern Tonopah District should be viable."
Mr. Janda also stated, "The continued expansion of our land position in Nye County is consistent with our southern Nevada strategy where we are still investigating several other property acquisitions. We are also looking closely at several new exploration opportunities in central Alaska that would geographical diversify our portfolio but allow us to remain on course to aggressively pursue gold and silver exploration opportunities for Tonogold."
Tonogold Resources, Inc. is a mineral exploration company with corporate headquarters in La Jolla, California. The Company is actively investigating precious metal projects in the western United States, Alaska and Mexico. The Company also has a project office in the Denver, Colorado area. For more information on the Company, visit their website www.tonogold.com .
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
This press release contains certain forward-looking information about Tonogold Resources, Inc. ("Tonogold"), which is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for "forward-looking statements" provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Words such as "expect(s)," "feel(s)," "believe(s)," "will," "may," "anticipate(s)," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions; statements regarding plans, objectives and expectations with respect to future operations, products and services; and statements regarding future performance. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of Tonogold Resources, Inc., that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements. These risks and uncertainties include: our lack of operating revenue and earnings history, our need for additional capital to pursue our business strategy, the grade and quantity of minerals in our projects may not be economic, we do not have fee title to our properties, but derive our right through leases and the Mining Law, we are a non-reporting company and as such do not make periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, we trade on the Pink Sheets and there can be no assurances that a liquid market will develop in our securities, mining is subject to extensive environmental regulations and can create substantial environmental liabilities, gold and silver are commodities which have substantial price fluctuations, a drop in gold and/or silver prices could adversely affect future profitability and/or capital raising efforts, and mining can be dangerous and present operation hazards for employees and contractors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Tonogold does not undertake any obligation to republish revised forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
SOURCE: Tonogold Resources, Inc.
Tonogold Resources, Inc.
Jeffrey Janda
(858) 456-1273
jeff@tonogold.com
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~ALMI $1.45 $1.48 Maybe new 52 week high coming.~Rig
~AVGC .195 X .204 ~Rig
~AVGC In @.20 ~Rig
~GLVP .005 X .008 Getting action.~Rig
~PAYD .335 X .345 just wants to bust through .35 IMO.~Rig
Todays News...
SOYO Group to Attend Voice Over IP Exposition
Company to Display its Entire Lineup of Z-Connect Products
ONTARIO, Calif., March 7, 2005 /Xinhua-PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
SOYO(R) Group, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: SOYO), a leading provider of computer motherboards, computer peripheral devices, and consumer electronics, announces today that it will be attending the Spring VON 2005 Conference and Expo in San Jose, California.
"VoIP offers a cost-effective, convenient alternative to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) for long distance and international phone and fax services, and is changing the way that the consumer, business, government and education markets purchase telecommunications products and services," said Mr. Chok, CEO of SOYO Group.
SOYO will be exhibiting its entire line of Z-Connect VoIP solutions in booth #934 at the Spring VON 2005 Conference and Expo, which is held at the San Jose Convention Center, March 7-10.
"Attending these conventions and expositions are very important as we emerge into the VoIP space," continued Mr. Chok. "We're displaying some of the industry's top products, designed to address multiple needs within the sector, and it's critical that our peers, our distributors, and the end-user community all have a chance to see our products up close and personal."
For more information about the features, advantages and benefits of SOYO's Z-Connect products and services, please visit http://phone.soyo.com .
About SOYO Group, Inc.
SOYO Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOYO) is a leading global provider of computer, consumer electronics, networking, and broadband telecommunications products and services that meet the needs of all markets -- from the end-user to the enterprise. Headquartered in Ontario, California, with sales offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil, SOYO Group sells its products through an extensive network of authorized distributors, resellers, system integrators, VARs, retailers, mail-order catalogs and e-tailers. For more information about the company and its products, please call (909) 292-2500 or visit our web site at http://www.soyogroup.com .
Safe Harbor Act Notice
This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act"). In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the words "plan," "confident that," "believe," "scheduled," "expect," or "intend to," and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Act and are subject to the safe harbor created by the Act. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions, the availability of components and successful production of the Company's products, general acceptance of the Company's products and technologies, competitive factors, timing, and other risks described in the Company's SEC reports and filings. Third party statements contained herein and information contained on any third party website are not endorsed by or adopted by SOYO, nor has their accuracy been verified by SOYO.
For more information, please contact:
Corporate Contact: Ms. Pat Harriman, Director of Marketing,
SOYO Group, Inc.
1-909-292-2543,
path@soyogroup.com
Technical Media Relations: Mr. Len Fernandes, Sierra Tech Public
Relations
1-530-832-1613,
lencom@earthlink.net
Investor Relations: Mr. John D. Roskelley, President, First Global Media
1-480-902-3110,
jroskelley@firstglobalmedia.com
SOURCE SOYO Group, Inc.
Corporate: Ms. Pat Harriman, Director of Marketing of SOYO Group, Inc.,
+1-909-292-2543,
path@soyogroup.com
; Technical Media Relations: Mr. Len Fernandes of
Sierra Tech Public Relations, +1-530-832-1613,
lencom@earthlink.net
; Investor
Relations: Mr. John D. Roskelley, President of First Global Media, +1-480-902-3110,
jroskelley@firstglobalmedia.com
, both for SOYO Group, Inc.
http://www.prnewswire.com
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~SIOR .50 X .51 ~Rig
~PAYD 100k buy at the ask.Hmmmm.~Rig
~OMOG .0103 X .0106 ~Rig
Nice work Dream! ~Rig
~MLHP .255 X .26 Malaria drug orders coming? ~Rig
~MLHP Chart...
~Rig
~MLHP .235 X .24 ~Rig
~PAYD .33 X .335 ~Rig
~SCMI .079 x .08~ Rig
~SEHO .26 X .27 ~Rig GM!
~SIKY Profile News...
NGINetwork.com Announces Company Overview of Sticky Web Inc.
By Staff
NEW YORK, Mar 7, 2005 (PRIMEZONE via COMTEX) --
The National Growth Investors Network today announced the company overview of Sticky Web Inc. (Pink Sheets:SIKY). NGINetwork.com is the same newsletter that profiled Asia Payment Systems, Inc. in early December 2004. The Profile is a comprehensive look at Sticky Web Inc., the company's subsidiaries and products. You can view the complete profile at http://www.nginetwork.com .
About Sticky Web, Inc.
Sticky Web, Inc. is a provider and manager of a portfolio of patents, patents pending, technologies and intellectual properties that provide electronic document publishing, e-mail management and distribution, e-commerce tools, electronic document access and online collaboration.
Patent no. 6,631,400 is a seminal patent and is broad in scope. This patent provides SIKY the leading competitive position in the OPT-IN e-mail marketing industry. SIKY believes that combining the 6,631,400 patent with proven e-mail marketing companies will enable it to become the leading enterprise in the OPT-IN e-mail marketing industry.
Sticky Web's mission is to acquire technology-based companies that compliment each of the patents in their portfolio. SIKY is concentrating on making acquisitions and creating strategic relationships in the OPT-IN e-mail marketing industry that support its 6,631,400 patent. The target acquisition companies have a proven record of generating revenue and creating income and have extensive OPT-IN e-mail data files and e-mail records.
About The National Growth Investors Network
NGINetwork.com publishes profiles on up and coming publicly traded Companies. NGINetwork.com is a leader in Internet Destinations for small cap stock information. To feature your company please contact us by email at editor@NGINetwork.com
Disclosure: NGINetwork.com has been compensated by a third party $5000 and 250,000 free trading shares for 3-month coverage and publication of this profile. Details can be found at http://www.NGINetwork.com Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. This release contains statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements appear in a number of places in this release and include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things: (i) the Company's financing plans; (ii) trends affecting the Company's financial condition or results of operations; (iii) the Company's growth strategy and operating strategy; and (iv) the declaration and payment of dividends. The words "may," "would," "will," "expect," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "promise," "seeking to," "negotiating to" and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's ability to control, and that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.
SOURCE: National Growth Investors Network
INVESTMENT OPINION
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Some Potential movers ^ this week IMO..
Trading these and Long...
TRBY
AMLS*
CCCN
SOYO*
SIOR
RUBM
UGNE
UAMA
NMXS
COBN
Trading only...
SEHO
PAYD
PDCN
* expecting nice pop
Rig
Loudude,
Yesss I caught that one also.lol.Nice exposure for the mOusy.
~Rig
Read this one.... take note about Jamaica and Port Royal...
http://www.divernet.com/profs/01203marx.htm
~Rig
~AMLS, One reason I am accumulating....
Do the DD...
http://www.amersin.com/
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsbird064167015mar06,0,2970875.story
Sunday, March 6, 2005
BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
Global Threat
Experts say deadly virus presents grave risk if we don't 'get our act together'
BY BRYN NELSON
STAFF WRITER
March 6, 2005
The disaster could begin with little more than an infected duck, a promiscuous virus and a well-timed sneeze.
Where it would end remains less certain, but the growing alarm over a disease known as avian influenza owes much to the peculiar properties of a virus quickly expanding its domain far beyond birds.
On its surface, each strain of influenza virus is stippled with different combinations of two main proteins, abbreviated H and N.
Some of these combinations are seen only in wild birds or poultry. Many produce only mild symptoms. But the H5N1 strain that has killed at least 46 people within the past 14 months and forced the slaughter of more than 140 million birds hadn't previously been seen in humans for at least a century, meaning that no one alive today is immune.
It is, scientists say, one of the worst combinations of all.
"I would say in my lifetime, this is the most threatening time I've ever seen, and I've spent my lifetime studying the flu," said Robert Webster, head of virology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
Webster, an avian influenza expert who has long warned of the potential for a worldwide flu epidemic, or pandemic, now finds himself surrounded by a growing chorus of agreement.
Dr. Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organization's Western Pacific regional director, sounded one of the latest alarms at a conference last month in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to assess the threat of a viral disease commonly called the bird flu.
"We at WHO believe that the world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pandemic," Omi told attendees, echoing comments earlier in the week by Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Speaking in Washington, D.C., at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference, Gerberding characterized the virus as "the most important threat that we are facing right now."
She and other CDC officials later sought to downplay suggestions that the world is on the brink of a pandemic, stressing that no evidence has emerged to suggest that the H5N1 strain has achieved the ability to spread easily from person to person - a vital step in its transformation into a swift and proficient killer.
In January, the WHO released a 62-page report on the threat, commending researchers, health officials and governments for improving preparations for such an eventuality.
But the report and independent experts suggest there is still ample reason to be worried about a disease that once did little more than ruffle a few feathers in domestic chickens.
"I'm very concerned, because the virus is endemic in a large part of Asia and has the possibility of either mutating or recombining, re-assorting with human influenza viruses," said Dr. Thijs Kuiken, a veterinary pathologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The longer the H5N1 virus remains in circulation, health officials say, the graver the risk for catastrophe. In rural parts of Asia, poultry and other livestock are often housed together on land next to homes, meaning that human and avian flu strains could join forces to create a potent global assassin.
Most researchers have been loath to make death toll predictions for a potential H5N1 pandemic, citing the sheer unpredictability of the virus. But estimates have ranged from "best-case scenarios" of 2 million to 7.4 million, to "considerably worse" scenarios surpassing the estimated 1918-1919 pandemic toll of 40 million from "Spanish flu."
For a flu outbreak to become a pandemic, three conditions must be met:
A type A virus strain must arise with H and N proteins to which few, if any, people have acquired immunity.
Second, the virus must infect humans and be able to replicate easily - the process that leads to a severe disease.
And third, the virus must be easily spread from person to person in prolonged chains of casual contact.
The H5N1 strain already has achieved the first two requirements. When, or whether, it will meet the third remains anyone's guess, but Webster said the world needs to "get our act together" - and soon.
"It's going to happen sooner or later, probably sooner rather than later," he said. "The virus is making these changes, it's going from being pathogenic in domestic, terrestrial poultry to becoming pathogenic in waterfowl, and it's spread to tigers and domestic cats." The latter two animals were previously thought to be resistant to the virus, but research has shown that they too can fall seriously ill. Webster's group discovered they could experimentally infect ferrets with the virus as well, rapidly causing diarrhea, hind leg paralysis and death.
"Everything it does is rather frightening," he said.
Until 1997, only two people had ever fallen ill from the bird flu. In that year, however, a formerly mild version of the H5N1 strain mysteriously emerged in Hong Kong as a deadly disease - for both chickens and humans. Within a matter of weeks, 18 people had fallen ill.
Six of them died.
A slaughter of the city's 1.5 million birds over three days has been credited with averting a potential human health disaster.
But the virus didn't go away.
Beginning in late 2003, a more deadly version again washed over Asia, leading to poultry outbreaks in eight countries and a combined culling of at least 140 million birds in a desperate effort to control the outbreak.
But unlike in Hong Kong, those efforts may have come too late. Health officials are increasingly convinced that the virus is entrenched in poultry populations scattered throughout Thailand and Vietnam.
Over the past 14 months, successive waves of the H5N1 strain have unofficially infected 66 people, all but one in Vietnam or Thailand. So far, 46 of them have died, for a mortality rate of 70 percent. But recent reports have raised concerns that health officials may be missing even more cases.
Although no evidence of efficient person-to-person spread has emerged, experts believe some patients may have fallen ill not from contacting infected poultry but from prolonged exposure to an infected relative.
And there's something else: Last year, the average age of bird flu patients in Thailand was 20. In Vietnam, it was 15.
Close contact between poultry and children or young adults may be one explanation. But doctors also are seeing an exaggerated immune response in some cases - meaning a robust immune system may go overboard, worsening the illness.
"Why are some people susceptible? There has to be a genetic basis for it, but we don't have any knowledge of that yet," Webster said.
Last summer, Kuiken and other scientists at the Erasmus Medical Center made another surprising discovery. By infecting domestic cats with the H5N1 strain, they induced severe viral pneumonia in many of cats, as well as limited cat-to-cat spread of the virus.
Studies confirmed that leopards and tigers in a Thai zoo and reserve also had fallen ill after eating infected chicken carcasses - an indication the virus "produces disease in a greater range of species" than previous strains, Kuiken said.
Yet another species has been fingered as a "silent" viral reservoir: ducks.
"The ducks, the ducks, the ducks are the key to the whole damned thing," Webster agreed. Ducks, which are "everywhere in the south of Vietnam,"he said, have been shown to excrete large amounts of the virus through their feces, compounding the risk to humans who come into contact with it. Unlike chickens, however, most ducks have been symptom-free, meaning they could pass on the infection undetected.
If there is hope for dealing with the gathering threat, Webster said it may come from the place where it all began. Last year, he said, "there was no bird flu in Hong Kong, and it was all around it. They've cleaned up their act."
Domestic chickens are now vaccinated and twice a month the markets close for a thorough scrubbing. Webster said the efforts are a model for other nations.
"And they have had no bird flu, but unfortunately, the world hasn't shouted about that fact," he said.
Elsewhere, contingency plans are gathering steam. In the United States, health officials are scrambling to test an experimental vaccine against the H5N1 strain, based on an inactivated version of the virus from a Vietnamese patient. Clinical trials beginning this month will involve 4,000 volunteers.
But even if a vaccine proves safe and effective, how easily can the vaccine industry meet a global demand that could exceed hundreds of millions or billions of doses?
In the event of U.S. shortages, officials say an ethics panel to the CDC may determine who would receive vaccines first.
Other tests by the CDC have shown that the H5N1 strain is resistant to two of the four drugs cited as potential prophylactic or treatment options - leaving the less readily available and more expensive compounds oseltamivir and zanamivir (marketed as Tamiflu and Relenza, respectively) as the best options in a national stockpile.
So far, the United States has stockpiled enough oseltamivir for about 2.3 million people.
For now, experts say, the best approach may be to prepare for a reality that many foresee in the near future. In a post-9/11 world, the idea of imminent danger and pre-emptive action is finding a more receptive audience.
At a bio-security conference earlier this week in Lyon, France, Webster said he told attendees: "The greatest bio-terrorist at the moment is Mother Nature brewing something."
No one, he said, disagreed.
The avian flu
In 1997, a strain of bird flu known as H5N1 emerged in Hong Kong, killing chickens-and six humans. In the past year, the same viral strain has infected humans and poultry alike across Southeast Asia, raising fears of a global flu epidemic, or pandemic, that could kill millions.
WHAT A PANDEMIC REQUIRES:
1. A virus emerges to which the general population has little or no immunity.
2. The virus can replicate in humans and cause serious illness.
3. The virus can be easily spread among humans.
The current avian strain has met the first two criteria.
A few humans are believed to have spread it to other humans, but there is no evidence that the virus is easily spread.
MANY POSSIBILITIES
Flu viruses get their names from two sets of protein spikes that jut from the surface of the virus - the hemagglutinin, or H, spike and the neuraminidase, or N, spike.
There are 15 H subtypes, designated H1 to H15, and nine N subtypes, designated N1 to N9. The current avian flu strain is made up of H5 and N1; hence, the flu's name is H5N1. The unpredictability of how the two protein spikes will match up is why creating a vaccine causes headaches for health officials.
PANDEMICS AND ANIMALS
Flu pandemics often begin in Asia because many people tend to be in close contact with their food sources, meaning the virus is more easily transmitted. Humans can get the flu from animals by eating raw meat, handling the animals or coming into contact with their feces.
1918-19
The "Spanish flu' pandemic killed 40 million people or more worldwide, including more than 650,000 Americans. The origins of the strain, known as H1N1, remain hotly debated.
1957
The "Asian flu' pandemic killed an estimated 2 million people or more globally and about 70,000 in the United States. That milder strain, H2N2, is thought to be the product of a recombination between separate human and avian flu strains.
1968
The "Hong Kong flu' pandemic killed about 1 million people worldwide and 34,000 in the United States. The strain, H3N2, was again likely formed through a recombination of human and avian strains.
The next one?
The avian flu strain currently in Asia, H5N1, is known to have infected such animals as chickens, ducks, hawks and other wild birds, and tigers and leopards. In experiments, scientists have successfully infected cats and ferrets. Most infected ducks have shown no symptoms, meaning they could spread the virus unbeknownst to human observers.
THE FLU VIRUS
Have a good day all~
~Rig
OT:mrwilson,
you are welcome!Work hard on that dd, the plays will come.
~Rig