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Anatomy Of China’s Bird Flu Outbreak So Far

Lily Kuo | Quartz | April 24, 2013

Only 4 of the 81 people with confirmed cases of bird flu in China have fully recovered, according to a new study of the outbreak by the New England Journal of Medicine. The report also confirms that human-to-human trasmission of H7N9, which could cause a deadly global pandemic, can’t be ruled out. Read More »

CDC Closes Labs After Anthrax, Bird Flu And Small Pox Scares

David Ludwig | Government Executive | July 14, 2014

Days after the discovery of small pox vials in a NIH medical laboratory in Bethesda, the Center For Disease Control announced Friday that labs connected to anthrax and bird flu scares would be temporarily closed...

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Scary Science, National Security, and Open-Source Research

Maggie Koerth-Baker | Boing Boing | January 13, 2012

I've been following the story about the scientists who have been working to figure out how H5N1 bird flu might become transmissible from human to human, the controversial research they used to study that question, and the federal recommendations that are now threatening to keep that research under wraps. Read More »

The Bird Flu Has Spread Beyond China, And It's 'One Of The Most Lethal' Ever

Connor Simpson | The Atlantic Wire | April 24, 2013

The new strain of bird flu infecting and killing people in China is on the move. All of the reported cases had been contained to a relative few hotspots, but the first reported case of a human infection outside mainland China arrived Wednesday, and that's got the world's top scientists pretty worried about this H7N9 strain—even if it's not being transmitted from person to person. Read More »

The Underreported Side Of The Ebola Crisis

Rose Ann DeMoro | The Blog | September 6, 2014

Amid the media accounts of the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded some significant context is largely missing from the major media reporting.  Atop this list are links of the outbreak to the climate crisis and global inequality, mal-distribution of wealth, and austerity-driven cuts in public services that have greatly contributed to the rapid spread of Ebola...

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This New Data Should Make You Pretty Nervous About The Latest Bird Flu

Lily Kuo | The Atlantic Cities | April 25, 2013

Only 4 of the 81 people with confirmed cases of bird flu in China have fully recovered, according to a new study of the outbreak by the New England Journal of Medicine. The report also confirms that human-to-human transmission of H7N9, which could cause a deadly global pandemic, can’t be ruled out. Here’s a summary of the report. Read More »

What We Don't Know About The Deadly New SARS-Like Virus

Alexander Abad-Santos | Atlantic Wire | May 2, 2013

Saudi Arabia announced late Wednesday that five more people have died and two others are undergoing intensive treatment as a result of the new novel coronavirus (NCoV), a cousin of SARS that causes kidney failure and pneumonia. The latest in a slow trickle of information brings the mortality rate to 16 deaths among 24 known infections [...]. Read More »