To be honest, I've never been much of a bird person.

说实话，我从来不是一个喜欢鸟的人。

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The host, whether it is a person, bird, or pig, provides a place for influenzas to make contact, exchange genetic material, and form new viruses.

无论是人、鸟还是猪，作为宿主都能为流感病毒提供接触、交换遗传物质和形成新病毒的场所。

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That could mean bird flu will remain a dead end, infecting the occasional unlucky person but never turning into a full-blown pandemic.

这意味着禽流感病毒已走到尽头，它只是随机感染几个不太幸运的人，但全面爆发全球大流行绝不可能。

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"I like how little performance there is in a person chatting at a table or just in a bird song and how it can also contain such depth, honest, and real soul, " he says.

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After that shaky start, the world has responded fairly well to the risk of this particular virus mutating in a way that would allow it to pass from person to person rather than merely from bird to person.

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So are we ready to battle a pandemic strain of bird flu if this new virus picks up the capacity to more efficiently spread from person to person?

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