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If animals - and people for that matter - are kept in overcrowded conditions, and are fed on inadequate and unnatural diets, they will get sick. Why are farming techniques not looked at rather than blaming wild animals for the spread of disease? - Deryn Bell, Dorchester
Avian flu: strictly for the birds - Avian flu (H5N1) is predicted to be the next pandemic, claiming up to 7.4 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. The virus was dis...
Avian flu - The drugs don’t work - The US and the nations in the European Union have recently pledged donations of US$1.9 billion to “prevent the development of human pandemic influenza...
Avian flu how safe is tamiflu? - Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate), the antiviral drug, seems to be the weapon of first choice against the avian flu. The American government has ordered...
Avian Flu: More bad news for our greatest hope - Anyone here remember avian flu? You know, nasty disease, kills everyone. Even the UK’s very own chief medical officer of health Sir Liam Donaldson t...
Avian Flu: Cost is the key as yet another ineffectual drug is pushed - Medical researchers are a little like politicians in one major regard: they both like to keep us in a state of terror. For the politician, it’s a use...
Avian flu the germ-warfare connection - Conspiracy theorists believe that scientists know there are terrible man made viruses that may be deliberately or accidentally unleashed on the world...
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