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We have bird flu all over here now (officially, since it has probably been around for over 100 years), but no reason to panic. Its just like all other virus or bacterias you can catch and taking precautions, however H5N1 is extremely difficult to catch. Normal hygiene, like washing your hands, take off your shoes when you go in etc is enough. And tell the kids not to touch dead birds.
To mutate, a person already must have another type of flu when getting H5N1. To spread like a pandemic, the virus most become airborn, which it is not because of the location of the virus in the body. And if someone get H5N1, they will die fast, and maybe already isolated, before it could mutate and spread to someone else.
So the worst scenario today is not pandemic among humans, but farms getting their birds infected and thereby loss of money.
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