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13-01-05, 13:47
The Centers for Disease Control says it will deliberately combine the deadly bird flu virus that's circulating in Asia with human influenza viruses to understand whether and how it might cause a pandemic. This ScienCentral News video has more.
Flu Experiments
The Centers for Disease Control has announced that it will mate the Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus (also known as "bird flu") and human flu viruses to monitor the resulting viruses' severity, and ability to infect and be transmitted. The process is called "reassortment." Flu experts say the lab experiments are crucial to find out what may already be happening naturally in Asia; they fear the lethal bird flu circulating there will swap genes with a human strain to create a killer strain that could easily spread from person to person.
Experts believe the bird flu virus isn't changing rapidly enough to spark a global outbreak, or pandemic, this year, but say it's impossible to predict beyond that.
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http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392453&cat=1_1
En toen ontsnapte het virus het laboratorium. Oeps. Ahum..
Flu Experiments
The Centers for Disease Control has announced that it will mate the Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus (also known as "bird flu") and human flu viruses to monitor the resulting viruses' severity, and ability to infect and be transmitted. The process is called "reassortment." Flu experts say the lab experiments are crucial to find out what may already be happening naturally in Asia; they fear the lethal bird flu circulating there will swap genes with a human strain to create a killer strain that could easily spread from person to person.
Experts believe the bird flu virus isn't changing rapidly enough to spark a global outbreak, or pandemic, this year, but say it's impossible to predict beyond that.
(...)
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392453&cat=1_1
En toen ontsnapte het virus het laboratorium. Oeps. Ahum..