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The strain of H5N1 bird flu isolated from a dairy worker in Texas was 100 percent fatal in ferrets used to model influenza illnesses in humans. However, the virus appeared inefficient at spreading via ...

(Reuters) - The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

With the current population of earth we can expect a pandemic or successfully prevented pandemic every decade or so. Note there were a number of possibles that never eventuated between the 90's and ...