05-15-2009, 01:46 AM
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Human noses too cold for bird flu
Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say.
Tests in a laboratory recreation of the environment in the nose found that at 32 degrees Celsius, avian flu viruses lose function and cannot spread.
It is likely that the viruses have adapted to suit the warmer 40 degree environments in the guts of birds.
A mutation would be needed before bird flu became a human problem, they said.
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Read more at BBC NEWS | Health | Human noses too cold for bird flu
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