You could be forgiven for being confused about bird flu this week. Recent research showed that a few mutations would allow H5N1 bird flu to spread through the air between mammals. Ron Fouchier at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who created the mutated virus, said last year that it was deadly. He has now told a biodefence meeting in Washington DC that the virus did not kill the ferrets that inhaled it.
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