Censoring influenza research: gagging scientists could put lives at risk

Researchers working on a pathogenic strain of avian flu (H5N1) have agreed to pause their work for 60 days so international experts can discuss the safest ways to proceed. But it’s important to ensure that this voluntary moratorium doesn’t provide a platform for censorship of the research which has already faced calls for suppression of data from a US government agency. Byline:  Ross Barnard ...

Censoring influenza research dangerous

Researchers working on a pathogenic strain of avian flu (H5N1) have agreed to pause their work ...

Peek Through Time: Flu epidemic of 1918-19 ravaged Jackson, Michigan and world

In 1918-19, “the worst epidemic the world has ever known” raged on in Jackson.The outbreak had a direct impact on Tarena Borden Sullivan, a Jackson native now living in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Watching Bird Flu

Avian Influenza, or A H5N1, has a mortality rate among humans of twenty to thirty times that of Spanish Flu which killed up to fifth million people in 1918/1919 and would be far, far worse than even the Black Death which assailed Europe in the fourteenth century.

Bird Flu: Let us not forget the Grim Reaper

From time to time the international media needs to wake up and remember that there is a deadly virus lurking out there with a mortality rate far superior to the Black Death and between twenty and thirty times higher than Spanish Flu, which killed around 50 million people from 1918-1919.