In Britain, gene-edited chickens have been created which makes them resistant to the H9N2-UDL strain of bird flu. Bird flu has decimated poultry and wild birds in recent years in the UK. Also, bird flu is a zoonosis and can be transferred from birds to …
About five days ago it was reported in the news media that Jeremy Farrar, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) had urged governments to ensure that the pharmaceutical industry crank up trials and thereafter the production of avian flu (H5N1) vaccines …
This is an update on the devastating avian flu outbreak in the UK. My thanks to The Times newspaper and Rhys Blakely the science correspondent. Before I mention the report, I can remember a television news item yesterday featuring a woman who looks after a …
The back story is that in the UK currently there is an H5N1 bird flu problem. The poultry industry and wild birds in the UK are going through the worst winter for avian flu on record. About 2.3 million birds have been culled to limit …
