Bird Flu

In recent years, the $6.3 trillion global “wellness” industry has marketed itself as a viable, liberating alternative to conventional medicine — promising empowerment, “natural” health, and personal control.
I explained to Lars that this all started in 1986 when the White House published a white paper, The Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology, which got the science right—regulation should be risk-based, not dictated by the me
Amidst the usual surge of winter respiratory illnesses, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sheds light on an emerging and largely undetected threat: the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) to v
After at least 66 documented cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount — the first death was just reported.
When dairy cows in Texas started falling ill last Spring, alarm bells started to ring.
Since late 2003, birds in over a dozen nations in Asia and at least seven nations in Europe have been struck by