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May 06, 2013

Fears for man-made bird flu bug
Paris (AFP) May 03, 2013
Immunologists expressed concern Friday about the "dangerous" work of scientists in China who created a hybrid bird flu virus that can spread in the air between guinea pigs, and now lives in a lab freezer. The team from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Gansu Agricultural University wrote in the journal Science they had created a new virus by mixing genes from H5N1 "bird flu" and H1N1 "swine flu". H5N1, transmitted to people by birds, is fatal in about 60 percent of cases, but does ... read more

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