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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and the Asain bird flu, will likely have certain things in common, in that wild and domestic birds, will end-up eating other animals, if not directly, then by proxy.
Unlike BSE, it may be that the flu will have to develop in humans, possibly because of generations of people that have worked in that field, whereby breathing the fetid air, soaking up the bird fluids thru the skin and occasionally getting some of those fluids in the mouth during slaughter.
It may be likely, that for this to occur, the workers in that field may have to work with wild and domestic stocks, that may be in the same enclosures, but not necessarily.
This cross-over may have been building for years. It just may be that common enclosures, with several different kinds of wild and domestic birds, are fed the table scraps from families and generation after generation are eaten, with the table scraps of each generation making the circut, between human and bird alike. It may also be true, that those who have contracted it, had lineage from such families and as the bird generations, the human families reproduced and their children may have eaten from the same stocks.
Those that have contracted the disease may not even know their families did such things in the past, so they may not tell the researchers of such lineages. Hence, the connections may not be made.
It is also possible that workers in that field have domesticated stocks, that they add to from other wild and domestic stocks, that somehow make the circut whole, whereby human and bird alike, combine in following generations.
Since this circut is already been made complete, it is likely that the flu will mutate and spread rapidly from one human to another with a little more time.
As alchohol, tobacco, and garlic, create proclivities within following generations, so should generations of people that eat and feed table scraps, back to the birds and their offspring eat from the same stocks, generation after generation.
In some Asain communities, the farmers spread their own fecal and urine waste, amoungst their crops as fertilizer. In this manner does the circut become complete, between man, bird and the commonality created between themselves, their foods and their offspring. It is also probable, that as the flu comes for man that must feed his birds and the sweat from his hands and fluids from his cough are passed to the birds, some remnants of each seasons flu remains in the flock and when man eats birds unknowing when they have their own flu, some remnants of the bird flu are likely to remain in man and bird, mixing and mutating thru crops, direct contact and thru their offspring, from womb, thru adult-hood.
In summation, I believe that the bird flu comes because of rural farmers, that have bird stocks and crops they grow, whereby, the circut is made whole by the human fecal matter and possibly bird matter, spread as fertilizer on mans crops.
To break the cycle, it just may be, that in these rural settings, man stops putting one or both sets of fecal matter on his crops and instead, uses a commercial fertilizer.
The cycle can also be broken in other ways, but this seems to be the best way.
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