Zika Related to Cattle Farming?
It’s now an unfolding pandemic, and it may be caused in part by intensive cattle farming.
Climate Change: from War to Brain Damage
As climate change accelerates, our warming planet is driving crises that range from war on one side of the globe to brain-damaged babies on the other. A few reports from recent days …
Whose Temperature Should You Be Taking?
While passengers arriving from West Africa at Dulles International Airport last week were having their temperatures taken, this woman was sitting on the other side of…
How Ebola Is Killing Our Cousins
If chimpanzees and gorillas had their own version of the Internet, they’d probably be posting headlines like: Gorillas Face Extinction as Invasive Species Rampages through ForestsHumans…
New Bird Flu Virus: H7N7
Scientists studying the H7N9 bird flu virus say they’ve discovered a new strain of bird flu lurking in the chickens at the poultry markets of China.…
Move Over, H7N9 – Here Comes MERS
While the latest scary bird flu is still killing people in China and can’t quite make up its mind whether or not to mutate into a…
H7N9 Now Spreading Human-to-Human
An ominous development in the new bird flu is the first apparent, well-documented case of the virus being transmitted from human to human. Laurie Garrett, who…
H7N9 Has Escaped from China
At a briefing in Beijing yesterday, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an assistant director general at the World Health Organization, called H7N9 “definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses we’ve seen.”
He added that “the potential development of human-to-human spread cannot be ruled out.”
Is This the Real ‘Contagion’?
Children playing along a river bank spot hundreds of bloated pig carcasses bobbing downstream. Hundreds of miles away, people are grossed out by the rising stench…
Bird Flu Strikes Mexico–2.5 mil Chickens Killed
Chickens at a factory farm in Mexico Two and a half million chickens have been slaughtered in the last few weeks in 31 factory farms in…
Latest Reports on Bird Flu
happened upon a website called The Poultry Site, which describes itself as a “portal for the global poultry industry.” Its news section includes a Guide to Avian Flu, where you can “catch up with the latest bird flu news from across the globe.”
Bird Flu Outbreak in Hong Kong
Just as a team of Dutch researchers are pushing to publish the details of how they created an easily-transmitted mutation of the deadly bird flu virus, H5N1 has struck yet again in Hong Kong.
The New Bird Flu Scare
In the wake of a team of Dutch researchers creating a deadly new strain of H5N1 bird flu virus in their lab, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, overseen by the National Institutes of Health, has asked two journals, Science and Nature, not to publish “experimental details and mutation data that would enable replication of the experiments.”
How to Start a Real Global Contagion
Bioterrorism expert Dr. Thomas Inglesby is alarmed by a team of scientists meddling with the H5N1 bird flu virus and wanting to publish their results.
Bird Flu Is Back
Three weeks ago, the U.N. warned that avian flu is back on the rise after a five-year decline. A new strain of the H5N1 virus had appeared in China and Vietnam, prompting the alarm.