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One Sick Chicken

Michael Balter / Truthdig May 16, 2023 How the poultry industry complicates preparations for an avian flu pandemic. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

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Keeping a Bird’s Eye on Bird Flu

Michael Balter / Truthdig May 3, 2023 Scientists are monitoring mutations in H5N1, a pathogenic avian flu that may be moving in our direction. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Deadly Antiviral Resistant Flu Appears in China

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Avian Flu in China

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New Bird Flu Jumps to Humans, Kills 6 in China

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scientist: Make Bird Flu Mutation Research Available Now

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not All Swine Flu News Is Bad

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2009 Of course, nobody knows for sure how the H1N1 swine flu virus might morph in the future, but the word from the science community suggests that the current strain may not be quite as catastrophic as it's been cracked up to be. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )