(guelphmercury.com): It seems that science and technology has progressed exponentially in the last 10 years. Much good has come out of these advances. But as with all advancements in society, we are forced to take the good with the bad. A Dutch laboratory has seemingly created a form of the avian flu that can be transmitted between ferrets, which apparently is the model used to represent humans. With all the media coverage in recent years about avian flu, most would know that it is highly fatal, but hasn’t become a widespread pandemic because it is hard for the virus to cross from poultry to humans.
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