It was just about three years ago that H1N1 made its way onto the 24 hour news cycle, planting itself there like its own kind of virus and fed by good ol' fashioned fear. You might have chuckled swine flu off as more media overhype -- or just looked
Let's give bird flu research a rest for two months. This is the message released yesterday in "a short letter":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/481443a.html by a group of scientists led by Ron Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, tw…
Fears over a massive bird flu pandemic are nothing new. Since the first human infection in 1997, hundreds of people across the world, but mainly in Southeast Asia, have been infected. Of those hundreds, about 60-percent died. Fortunately, human-to-hu…
