bird flu

by University of Cambridge edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks, according to new research led by the universities of […]

France’s Institut Pasteur warns that the avian influenza spreading through animal populations worldwide might spawn a health emergency surpassing COVID-19 in severity if the pathogen evolves to jump between people. Small chickens in a poultry farm. Image credit: Zoe Richardson via Unsplash, free license The highly pathogenic strain has already forced farmers to destroy hundreds of millions