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Saturday, September 27, 2014

H5N6 Warning

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization or FAO has issued a warning regarding a new variant of bird flu that is emerging.

Called H5N6, it is considered virulent among animals but the bulletin stressed that the danger to humans is low.

Despite these assurances, if you are located in Asia, it is best to monitor the virus given the demonstrated ability of the bird flu virus to mutate. There are several variants now as well as many cases with the different strains. In the virus world, it takes just one roll of the genetic dice to come up with a variant that jumps species and becomes virulent among humans.

Click here for the article on the FAO

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