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  • Bird Flu crossing borders: Migratory birds' flyways. UN FAO/OIE. CC BY 2.0.

    At Risk of the Flu

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    “Only a crisis- actual or perceived- produces real change”- Milton Friedman In September 2011, Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre stood at a scientific conference in Malta and announced that he had created a mutated strain of Avian Influenza that could be the deadliest contagious disease in history. Concurrently, […]