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...pigs, they pick up the viral machinery that gives more selective flu strains the power to spread to other mammals, like us. That's what makes pigs such potent mixing bowls for flu. The roundabout bird-pig-human route may be less common than the straight bird-human jump, but it may be more problematic. Strains of avian flu, like the much-feared H5N1, can infect individual humans, but they can't make the person-to-person leap. Avian flu that is passed through the pig's mammalian system, however, can be passed readily among humans. (Read "Why Border Controls...
More balls of all shapes and sizes after the jump...
...struck out 23 in one game, one-hit the Netherlands National Team in his first Olympic start, and has been called the greatest prospect ever by Buster Olney, gets selected first overall during the MLB amateur draft in June. To find out why, read on after the jump...
...group of U.S. senators, gave suggestions for U.S. recovery to a packed room of students, academics, and professionals at the Kennedy School yesterday. Dinkic said the United States has struggled so far because it has neither allowed failing financial institutions to fall nor given rescued banks enough money to jump start lending. Dinkic pointed to his own experience as governor of Serbia’s Central Bank, where he said he allowed four major banks to fold in one day in 2002 because the Serbian people had no confidence in them. Still, Dinkic expressed support for the Obama administration?...
...Toomey, who would be a much easier target in the increasingly Democratic state. Representatives Allyson Schwartz and Patrick Murphy were both being touted as probable candidates, though the leading contender was probably Representative Joe Sestak. Democrats say it seems unlikely now that any of the unannounced candidates will jump in; not only was Specter reportedly promised the full support of the national Democratic Party as part of his deal to switch sides - and the President himself has said he would campaign on his behalf - but also Specter enjoys a close relationship with Governor Ed Rendell, the state's most powerful...