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...Southern China has long been recognized as the incubator of flu viruses. Traditional Chinese farming practices?especially the close proximity of birds, pigs and humans?promote the mixing of viruses, which mutate and leap between species. New strains are constantly evolving as viral genes are swapped between host bird species. 'The 1997 strain was a reassortment from three viruses from goose and, we think, the quail,' says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since 1975 ... The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together...
...bird flu that is spreading with alarming speed through Asia's poultry farms--killing thousands of chickens in 10 countries and forcing the slaughter of millions more--has so far infected a relatively small number of humans. Fewer than a dozen people in Vietnam and Thailand have caught the flu, all by direct exposure to infected chickens, and there is no evidence yet of the disease spreading from one person to another. But when humans do catch it, it is extremely deadly; at least eight people have already died, most of them children like Kaptan. And the great fear...
Scott V. Edwards ’86 has returned to Harvard to take the fifth-largest bird collection in the world—located at the University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ)—under his wing...
...expect with his arrival that the bird collections of the MCZ will see a new use worldwide as people once again become aware of how extraordinary our MCZ bird collection is,” McCarthy said...
...Parasites are a very powerful evolutionary source, affecting everything from a bird’s genetic makeup to plumage, to the way it behaves, so we are trying to understand what happens when a bird meets a new pathogen,” Edwards said...