Why flu virus prefers to strike in winter

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RE: Why flu virus prefers to strike in winter

To my mind the infection from influenza in tropical regions could be due to direct contact between people: If the influenza virus is infectious in the cold due to its rubbery membrane causing an ability to travel from host to host yet without this membrane being in a solid state at higher temperatures it nevertheless manages to infect cells, transferring from cell to cell as it multiplies, when inside a human host at body temperature: therefore we can say that although no longer infectious, i.e.transferring throuh air from host to host, at higher temperatures; it is nevertheless contagious, i.e. transferring from cell to cell - even in transfer by means of epidermic contact between hosts, as well as by contact infection from cell to cell within an individual host.

We may see evidence of this in the start of the bird flu epidemic; where transfer of the virus from bird to human in eastern countries where the temperature was always higher was achieved by means of handling the infected poultry: however it appears that when the virus came to england it infected a flock of swans in Dorset by infectious transfer from bird to bird in the winter: This appears to have not happened in any recorded case during the summer; bearing out the theory that the virus becomes contagious only at higher temperatures.

Posted by: Shazzalive   Posted on: 03/11/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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