You might not have noticed, but the influenza world has been in a bit of an uproar since late last year, when news leaked out that two teams of researchers had purposefully tweaked H5N1 bird flu in the lab to potentially make it more transmissible among human beings. (H5N1 spreads like wildfire among birds ? and usually kills them ? but the virus only rarely seems to jump to human beings, though when it does the infections are often fatal.)
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