Yeeesh, have you guys seen the latest?
H7N9 is so 2013, according to The Shanghaiist. A new strain of bird flu has just been discovered and named, as a result of the death of a 73 year old woman in Jiangxi.
Is anyone else alarmed at how quickly it seems that viruses are jumping across animal barriers?
Images of Contagion keep flitting through my head as I look at the pictures of chickens and pigs being "treated" (i.e., killed and disposed as a preventative measure) across China.
Bird flu has struck at least 139 people and caused the death of 45 people in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan this year.
H7N9 is so 2013, according to The Shanghaiist. A new strain of bird flu has just been discovered and named, as a result of the death of a 73 year old woman in Jiangxi.
Is anyone else alarmed at how quickly it seems that viruses are jumping across animal barriers?
Images of Contagion keep flitting through my head as I look at the pictures of chickens and pigs being "treated" (i.e., killed and disposed as a preventative measure) across China.
Bird flu has struck at least 139 people and caused the death of 45 people in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan this year.
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