Forget the Cockroaches, it'll be Ferrets
In this week's issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases the Elena Govorkova group at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee reported that lab-engineered bird flu vaccine protects ferrets against several strains of H5N1 avian influenza. It's good to know that after Avian Flu kills off enough people so that our civilization collapses there'll be something left to pick up the pieces. Ferrets. Well, that's better than the cockroaches that would survive a nuclear holocaust, I guess. At least ferrets are fellow mammals. Pretty small boobs though. Public Service announcement: H5N1 avian flu outbreaks have been confirmed in more than 48 countries and territories, according to the World Organization for Animal Health. The virus almost exclusively infects birds but it has killed 128 people in nine countries and has infected at least 225. Experts say a pandemic of some kind of influenza is inevitable and that H5N1 looks closer than any other virus to c