Bird flu to potentially return with a vengeance
The terror that spread among the public when the avian flu broke lose a few years back might have subsided, but a new study suggests it might be time to panic again. While a strain of the H5N1 virus can kill humans, the disease has not gone pandemic since it doesn’t spread easily among humans. […]
The terror that spread among the public when the avian flu broke lose a few years back might have subsided, but a new study suggests it might be time to panic again.
While a strain of the H5N1 virus can kill humans, the disease has not gone pandemic since it doesn’t spread easily among humans. But change is potentially in the air, as researchers at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam have found that five mutations present in two mammal genes have enabled the lethal virus to spread easily between the animals, a tendency that can be just as to humans.
