One of the biggest fears facing us when it comes to possible pandemics would have to be the dreaded H5N1 avian influenza that scientists believe could be the most dangerous influenza facing man at this point.
Or at least it was until recently when researchers at both Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin discovered a way to develop a strain of the H5N1 that was capable of passing easily between ferrets. This is important because ferrets are used as models of how
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