+Health | February 8, 2011

A New Project to Track Animal Diseases Before They Infect Humans

By Bryan Walsh

Over on Healthland I have a post on a new online mapping project that will gather together reports of animal disease outbreaks from around the world. That data matters, and not just for vets—75% of the new, emerging and reemerging diseases affecting human beings at the start of the 21st century originated in human beings, [...]

+Health | January 13, 2011

Health: Using Genetic Engineering to Make Chickens Flu-Proof

By Bryan Walsh

On the main page I have a piece on a fascinating Science study that showed how scientists were able to genetically engineer chickens to make them virtually unable to pass on avian flu. That could have major implications for influenza—birds can spread new flu viruses to human beings—and for veterinary disease, if researchers can engineer [...]