Canadian health officials confirmed the first deadly case of H5N1 avian flu in North America, following the death of a person in western Canada after a trip to China in December. Health Minister Rona Ambrose revealed that the individual was a resident of Alberta who had traveled to Beijing, China. During the press-conference the minister added that the case is “isolated” and the risk to the general... 

Ron Fouchier, author of the original study. A group of leading scientists – including a Nobel Prize winner – has proclaimed that it is “ethically and morally” wrong to alter the deadly H5N1 virus to make it more contagious for research purposes, and have asked President Obama to ban it. “The accidental release of an artificial, laboratory-generated, human-transmissible H5N1 virus into...