Bird Flu Monitor: Alan Sipress: Playing chicken with a nightmare flu

Bird Flu Monitor > Alan Sipress: Playing chicken with a nightmare flu

[Avian Flu Diary] Sipress has spent years on the trail of avian flu, traveling across much of Asia as he filed reports. He gives us some deep background into the concerns held by many scientists that the H5N1 avian flu virus could meet up with, and swap genetic material, with the pandemic H1N1 virus.

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[surchur hot topics] Egypt - surchur: Alan Sipress on a potential merger of H1N1 and H5N1 Thanks to Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary for picking up this article by Alan Sipress at the Washington Post: If swine flu joins bird flu, the flu pandemic may be much worse.

[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ”” What Bird Flu Can Teach Us about Swine Flu: And while I was ransacking cyberspace in the summer of 2005, looking for new sources, I evidently missed Sipress's own coverage: All I can find on my blog from that period is a link to an excellent story he did on the first Indonesian H5N1 deaths .

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