Bid Adieu to Bird Flu with Tamiflu

With every new frontier that Avian Influenza crosses, the general public is bombarded with a huge media coverage and increasing anxiety. Two week ago bird flu officially crossed the English Channel and entered Britain. In fact the discovery of a half eaten carcass of a migratory whopper swan in Cellardyke, Scotland, on the 29th of March created a sensation. Some quick lab testing confirmed that indeed the bird had the deadly H5N1 virus responsible for bird flu. What raised eyebrows were that the carcass was half eaten either by a rodent or a domestic animal like a dog or a cat. This would mean that there is still a possibility of an animal carrier of the virus in Britain.



Early test results suggested the swan found in Scotland had an almost iden View the rest of this article