If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The US government bird flu “implementation plan” would close schools, ask employees to stay home and cost around 7 million US$. Already hospitals are complaining that costs to be bird flu prepared are too much. The implementation plan lays [...]

In the March 23 issue of the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Tokyo propose a means of tracking flu strain mutations based on the differences between cell receptors in human and bird respiratory systems and how they affect the H5N1 strain’s ability to allow human-to-human transmission.
Viruses need to [...]