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This is a discussion board about almost anything. Here you can meet interesting people, hear different opinions, and engage in small talk. The only requirement is that the subject is interesting!

Researchers Discover Bird Flu Patterns

Two different teams came to the same answers about the features and patterns of H5N1bird flu virus. Running tests on cats and parrots and examining the virus from people who got sick from it, researchers realized how the virus worked, why it is difficult to be passed onto humans and its deadly...

by User avatar Markos

Bird flu possible in U.S. within months

Health experts in the USA are expecting to see the avian flu virus on the US shores within a couple of next months. It is expected that the wild fowl will come over the migratory pathways and that it will carry the virus. It is almost certain that the fowl will be infected with the deadly H5N1...

by User avatar Mayo

Ecology

I would like to know the effect of auto-transport in production agriculture in related with ecological effects. if possible can you site me some literature concern?

by User avatar super

Mosquito-borne illness travels from Reunion to France

Besides having to worry about the bird flu outbreaks, France has another worry on its mind. It is called chikungunya and it is a mosquito-borne disease that has already took a couple of lives. The disease affected around 20% of the Reunion island and 30 tourists from the land who visited the island....

by User avatar Heidi Miller, LDN

US to test child bird flu vaccine

Right after new cases of bird flu had emerged in Austria and Germany, scientists from St. Luis in US announced they were going to test a vaccine against the deadly strain of bird flu on 120 children aged between two and nine. The vaccine is made from an inert form of the potentially lethal H5N1...

by User avatar Miia2818

Bird Flu spread in EU

The concern is getting bigger as new cases of dead birds are on the rise. Hungary is the sixth EU country that confirmed an outbreak of the virus. Three dead swans were found in a southern county who had contracted H5 subtype and analyses are being performed at the moment to see if it were the...

by User avatar Mick

Determine Your Death Risk

For all the people above the age of fifty, scientists from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center developed a test that could calculate and determine their risk of death in the following four yours. The test is of course not 100% accurate but gives an approximate idea of the survival...

by User avatar Miia2818

Man charged with sending anthrax hoax letters

It is a fact and recent events have showed us that bioterrorism is no longer a threat but a harsh reality. Everybody remembers the unsolved anthrax mailing cases back in 2001 when five people were killed. As a reminder, anthrax organisms can cause infection in the skin, gastrointestinal system, or...

by User avatar Danny

A new bird flu shot generated in just 30 days

The team at the University of Pittsburgh managed to genetically engineer vaccine that completely protected chickens from the deadly H5N1 virus that has killed millions of birds and around 80 people worldwide. The most fascinated thing is that it took them only 30 days to do so. Influenza vaccines...

by User avatar Bobby

Doctors 'help' eight patients die a day

Both voluntary and involuntary euthanasia are illegal under British law. However, an anonymous survey conducted among doctors, shows that doctors help patients die no matter what the law says. It has been estimated that around 3000 patients have been helped to die in Britain in just one year by...

by User avatar Heidi Miller, LDN