Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness
Ear to the Ground
One Sick Chicken
May 16, 2023 How the poultry industry complicates preparations for an avian flu pandemic.
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.
Bird Flu
May 2, 2015
New Bird Flu Reported in Taiwanese Woman
Nov 15, 2013 Sources in Taiwan say that a previously unseen variant of avian influenza infected a 20-year-old woman in that country in the first recorded case of an H6N1 virus infecting and causing disease in a human.
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.
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.
Scientists Make Killer Flu Virus Even Deadlier
Dec 28, 2011 More than half of the people infected with H5N1 -- the bird flu virus -- are dead, so it's a damned good thing the virus isn't airborne. That is, until now. U.S.-funded researchers in the Netherlands have successfully engineered a viral H5N1 strain that can spread through the air, realizing fears of a potentially weaponized germ that infects easily and kills half its victims.
