Ear to the Ground
Ear to the Ground
Ear to the Ground
Keeping a Bird’s Eye on Bird Flu
May 3, 2023 Scientists are monitoring mutations in H5N1, a pathogenic avian flu that may be moving in our direction.
Deadly Antiviral Resistant Flu Appears in China
May 29, 2013 Chinese researchers reported the first ever clinically documented case of resistance to the antiviral medication Tamiflu in patients infected with the H7N9 bird flu.
Avian Flu in China
May 7, 2013
New Bird Flu Jumps to Humans, Kills 6 in China
Apr 5, 2013 Chinese officials have closed poultry markets and ordered a mass slaughter of birds in Shanghai amid an outbreak of a type of avian flu that has not been seen in humans.
Scientist: Make Bird Flu Mutation Research Available Now
Jan 26, 2012 University of Tokyo scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka is making the case for unfettered access to studies in which researchers made a lethal bird flu virus even deadlier by taking it airborne. To those determined to find it, the recipe is already available, he warns, and the mutation could occur outside the laboratory at any moment. All hands to the urgent task of developing a vaccine, then.
