(See page Title - It is the question!)......I am seeing in terms of what research exists in Asia relevant to Avian flu H5N1 (hp) high pathogenic that it does rather easily infect blood relatives in the home where one home member is first infected by chickens. And it must be spread principally by coughing and sneezing but it is most always blood relatives it infects in the home of the infected blood relative who caught it from a chicken. Non blood relations who come into the home of the infected do not catch it in the home and carry it into the community. And although this genetic linkage prima faci is the way H5N1 (hp) spreads among people killing 30 percent to 40 percent to 50 percent of individuals it infects science is still saying it can not infect person to another person by coughing. The truth is "yes it can" and "yes it does" but most of the time only infecting close genetic blood relatives. Most people have a solid genetic immunity to deadly H5N1 (hp) strain. Most of the population, 9,999 out of 10.000 individuals, can both literally and figuratively sleep in a coup of H5N1 (hp) infected chickens and not catch the deadly strain or at least show the deadly symptoms. Nor to reiterate can they catch the high pathogenic strain of H5N1 from family members not blood related to themselves in an infected household. This is not the case with the low pathogenic (lp) mild H5N1infection strains which humans recover from quickly with few sniffles or light flu. All people catch low pathogenic H5N1 rather easily. More research work needs to be done on H5N1 (hp) concomitantly calling a cessation to the hypothesis it can not be spread by coughing and sneezing person to person. It can and does easily spread this way but only in a home of close genetic relatives to those blood relatives.                                                                                    And one should not make the mistake that humans have this marvel of a genetic protection from deadly America's high pathogenic Spanish Flu H1N1 which struck the world in early September year 1918 killing over 100 million within two years in the worse tragedy the world has ever known. They do not have this marvel of an immunity to H1N1 (hp). Anyone can catch it readily.                                                                                         Presently there is no high pathogenic Spanish Flu in the Americas nor the world. At the same time there is a considerable amount of low pathogenic Spanish Flu H1N1 in the Americas and some parts of the world which can potentially mutate to high pathogenic but has not mutated to high pathogenic since year 1920 to present. At any given time low pathogenic or high pathogenic Spanish Flu H1N1 can infect half a military base. But in more recent times it is all low pathogenic strain and all or near all recover. This has been the case in Israel where in a military unit of 336 healthy soldiers about half were infected and all recovered. The low pathogenic Spanish Flu strain along with low pathogenic Hong Kong Flu strain does kill some in the U.S. and the world. In the U.S. each year these strains of Hong Kong Flu and Spanish Flu kill about 35,000 people.                                                                                               There is attenuated Spanish Flu H1N1 low pathogenic strain in Annual Flu serum to prevent catching Spanish Flu and the serum is on the effective side. I have many pages available on Avian flu. This page is based on prima faci evidence of Asia research on H5N1. There needs to be extensive subtyping as to whether low pathogenic or high pathogenic strain to go any farther. However based on the massive amount of prima faci evidence (or China is simply not releasing subtyping information) China has determined H5N1 in low pathogenic or high pathogenic strain is unlikely to pose much danger now or future to humans and priority is being given to saving chickens. Vaccines which are a marvel using the Americas sister H5N2 in the serum which offer 100% protection against low pathogenic and high pathogenic H5N1 have been produced in China and America and should work for people also. At the present time however H5N1 offers no reason to vaccinate people. If needed H5N2 can be added in the future to the already flu serum mix of attenuated virus or virus particles in U.S. Annual Flu vaccine.                                                                                                  But returning to H5N1 (hp) avian bird flu it may be it infects people easily as does H5N1 (lp) in a milder form and H5N1 (hp) is not lethal at all to humans except becoming harsh and lethal to rare individuals or families with genetic disposition that places them at deadly risk to the high pathogenic strain.                                                                                (IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED THE AVIAN SPANISH FLU H1N1 (HP) HIGH PATHOGENIC BEGINNING BETWEEN AUGUST 27, 1918 AND SEPTEMBER 4, 1918 IN THE U.S. WAS NOT HARSH OR DEADLY TOWARDS ALL PERSONS IT INFECTED.  MANY HAD SIMPLY THE SNIFFLES OR LIGHT FLU FROM IT AND MANY DID NOT CATCH IT AT ALL.  THAT IS MANY DID NOT TURN BLUE IN THE FACE OR COUGH BLOOD BUT HAD LIGHT SYMPTOMS OR NO SYMPTONS AT ALL.  AND IF ONE IDENTICAL TWIN DID NOT CATCH IT IT DID NOT MEAN THE OTHER WOULD NOT CATCH IT OR IF ONE IDENTICAL TWIN CAUGHT IT IT DID NOT MEAN THE OTHER WOULD CATCH IT. EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF GENETICS SEEMED SUSCEPTABLE TO HIV1 (HP) SPANISH FLU OF 1918 PRIMA FACI.  BUT WITH H5N1 (HP) A RARE GENETIC DISPOSITION SEEMS PRIMA FACI TO DETERMINE WHO DOES TURN BLUE IN THE FACE AND COUGH BLOOD AND DIE.).                                                                                The question can not even begin to be answered as Asia has not done work on subtyping in terms of H5N1 of what is (lp) and what is (hp). Or China does not release all it's subtyping information.  So we simply do not know.          James Franklin Lawton