Talk:Antigenic shift

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Contents 1 About risk of pandemic 2 Death statistic inflated 3 Citations needed 4 Antigenic shift is not unique to influenza 5 References

[edit] About risk of pandemic

"In 2004, scientists pointed out that the avian influenza virus might undergo an antigenic shift with the human flu virus and cause a global influenza pandemic like the one in 1918." The condition for that is there to be an epidemic as the one of influenza type A concomitant with infection of the birds (H5N1 virus). Berton 18:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Death statistic inflated

The stated death toll on this page for the Spanish flu is inflated to 40-100 million dead, Whereas on the Spanish flu page, and in all research I've done, the toll was around 20-40 million. ^[1]

[edit] Citations needed

Citations are needed in the first paragraph, where it is stated that the term "antigenic shift" is specific to influenza literature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.204.15.239 (talk) 14:17, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Antigenic shift is not unique to influenza

This was previously corrected, but some idiot reverted the changes —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danfoste (talk • contribs) 00:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References