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Scientists Create GM Chicken That Does Not Spread Bird Flu To Other Chickens
"Scientists have developed genetically modified [GM] chickens that don't transmit bird flu [H5N1] to other chickens," HealthDay News/Bloomberg Businessweek reports. "This achievement could stop bird flu outbreaks from spreading within poultry flocks and possibly reduce the risk of bird flu epidemics that could lead to flu virus epidemics in humans, according to the researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh in the United Kingdom," whose findings appear in the Jan. 14 issue of the journal Science, according to the news service (Preidt, 1/13).
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