New Scientist reports today:
The H5N1 bird flu virus may be evolving the ability to spread from mammal to mammal, says a team who have discovered that pigs in Indonesia have been infected with the disease since 2005. It’s one step in the frightening chain of events that could lead to human transmission and a pandemic.
What follows is first-rate science writing that carefully explains how the virus is inching closer to becoming capable of wiping out huge numbers of people.
Terrifying stuff. Never forget that, in its quest for profits, animal agribusiness does more than abuse and slaughter animals by the billion; it also risks the lives of tens of millions of people. (Thanks, Matthew.) Link.
